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Title of the work

Three Nonsense Songs

Composer
Seiber Mátyás
Original / Hungarian title
Three Nonsense Songs / Három nonszensz dal
Foreign language / English title
Three Nonsense Songs
Subtitle
For mixed chamber choir
Year of composition
1956
Type
Choir a cappella
Instrumentation
chamber choir (S-A-T-B)
Duration
3 min
Movements, parts
1. There was an old lady of France
2. There was an old person of Cromer
3. There was an old man in a tree
Text
LEAR, Edward
Language
English
Publisher / Source
Novello & Co Ltd., NOV160020
Available here!
Recordings
Live video-recording, 2012 - Con Anima Chamber Choir, Jan Scheerer (cond.) (Available on youtube.com)
Remarks, other info
Based on poems by Edward Lear