Friday Afternoons Op. 7 BRITTEN BENJAMIN

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Contenu

Ee-oh!
A New Year Carol
A Tragic Story
Begone dull Care
Cuckoo!
Fishing Song
I mun be married on Sunday
Jazz-Man
Lone Dog
Old Abram Brown
The useful plough
There was a man of Newington
There was a monkey

Description :

A series of twelve songs with piano for children composed by Benjamin Britten between May 1933 and August 1934. Published as Friday Afternoons, Op. 7, they were written for his brother Robert's preparatory school at Prestatyn, where the singing classes took place on Fridays. The edition is part of the ABRSM syllabus (grade 4). Between the months of May 1933 and August 1934 Benjamin Britten composed a series of twelve songs with piano for children, published as Friday Afternoons Op. 7 and were written for his brother's preparatory school at Prestatyn, where the singing classes took place on Fridays. This edition also includes the song Lone Dog, which was withdrawn from the cycle in 1936 due to copyright problems.