Tuesday 11 May 2010

The muse of madness

Yes, they were written by a poet 'of a strange and unbalanced mind', who was in an asylum at the time, but the words of Britten's cantata Rejoice in the Lamb are not nonsense. I particularly like the section describing musical instruments and their rhymes.

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