Poet: Peter Burra (1909-1937)
Source: The Red Cockatoo & other songs
Date of Composition: 1937 (Oct. 9)
Publication: Faber Music Limited © 1994
Voice Difficulty Level: Moderate
Subject: Words cannot express the lover’s beauty
Range: C#4 – Gb5
Tessitura: A4 – E5
Tempo: Lento ma con moto; C
Duration: 01:52
Vocal Characteristics: Descending, cascading vocal lines; growing chromatic shifts in the middle section; some pitch independence required
Piano Difficulty Level: Moderate
Accompaniment Characteristics: Left-hand syncopations; sixteenths flowing between hands; octave doubling melody in right hand