A Swan, A Man (baritone voice and piano) by Alan Bullard Sheet Music for Piano & Vocal at Sheet Music Direct

Product Details

Artist Alan Bullard

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Alan Bullard

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 7

Arrangement Piano & Vocal

Publisher Colne Edition / BullardMusic

Level 5

Product ID 1152370

Genre Classical Contemporary

Instruments Piano Voice

Product Description

The poet Edmund Blunden served in the First World War, seeing continuous action in the front line. He spent his later years in Long Melford, Suffolk, where he wrote this poem in 1964: the mill-pond in the centre of the village reminded him of events of nearly 50 years previously, still clearly etched in the his mind. Bullards setting responds to this powerful imagery with troubled simplicity in the outer sections framing anguished memories of the battlefield at the central climax, making a telling recital piece railing at the futility of war.

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