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BROWN PENNY

I. Infant Joy                                          William Blake
II. When I Was Three                           Richard Edwards
III. All the Love Between Us                Anonymous
IV. God Made the Bees                       Anonymous
V. Now is the Month of Maying            Anonymous
VI. Brown Penny                                  William Butler Yeats
VII. My Heart Leaps Us                       William Woodsworth

Instrumentation: 1-1-1-1, 2-1-0-0, timp, perc, hp, pf, treble chorus, str

Texts: 19th Century Literature

Duration: 25 minutes

"In many respects Brown Penny is a 'song cycle' for chorus. The seven poems are arranged
so as to convey the progression of a single lifeas seen through a poet's eyes