singer, one-man choir, guitarist and composer
Little Bo Peep for alto voice, flute and piano
SM-000177569
- Composer
- folklore, David W Solomons
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Arranger
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David W Solomons
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Lyricist
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Walter Crane
- Publisher
- David W Solomons
- Genre
- World / Ethnic / English
- Instrumentation
- Piano, Flute, Contralto, Countertenor
- Scored for
- Trio
- Type of score
- Full score, Parts, Piano score
- Duration
- 3'0"
- Language
- English
- Difficulty
- Medium
- Year of composition
- 2013
Description
Setting of the English nursery rhyme Little Bo Peep (by Walter Crane and others) using the traditional melody merged with the melody that I composed specially for the "Wildlife in the Nursery" CD.
(http://www.cdbaby.com/singinganimals )
The sound sample is my own sung performance with electronic instruments.
The pdf file contains all parts (flute, voice and piano) plus the score and also a version of the score with reduced sized lines for flute and voice, which the pianist may like to use.
Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep,
And can't tell where to find them;
Leave them alone, And they'll come home,
Wagging their tails behind them.
Little Bo-peep fell fast asleep,
And dreamt she heard them bleating;
But when she awoke, she found it a joke,
For they were still a-fleeting.
Then up she took her little crook,
Determined for to find them;
She found them indeed, but it made her heart bleed,
For they'd left their tails behind them.
It happened one day, as Bo-peep did stray
Into a meadow hard by,
There she espied their tails side by side,
All hung on a tree to dry.
She heaved a sigh and wiped her eye,
And over the hillocks went rambling,
And tried what she could, as a shepherdess should,
To tack each again to its lambkin.