With great swagger and marked rhythm - not too fast © JULIAN GRANT/CHRISTOPHER REID 2003.
TILLIE'S
f Oh, f 4 do not mar ry that wild young man, oh, do not mar ry, my daugh ter, or 8 you will live the rest of your days on dog bis cuits and rain wa ter. mf
for Tillie (of course) and for Sarah Leonard
ALL SORTS OLD BALLAD q. = 54
12 But mar ry that wild young p 3 f 15 man she did, glad that he could sup port her on the p 3 3 3 3 3 f f 18 best dog bis cuits mo ney could buy and the fresh est of fresh rain 3 p f 2
21 wa ter and f the fresh est of fresh rain mf f 23 wa ter. diminuendo
f 26 ff p London: January 16 2003 sffz 3
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poem by CHRISTOPHER REID
JULIAN GRANT
1 Allegretto, with sprung rhythm q = 84 STREET MUSIC © JULIAN GRANT/CHRISTOPHER REID 2003.
3 mf 5 As she squeezed that squeeze box hour af ter 3 3 p 9 hour, her mu sic had pp 4
13 a dis tur bing pow er a fla vour at once both 3 3 3 3 p 17 sweet and so ur. 3 3 mf 3 3 3 3 3 3 mf 21 Some peo ple list ened a p 24 min ute or two, but no one danced and no one 5
27 knew the words to tunes so blithe f 31 and so blue. mf p f 34 The pleats of the box were its p legato 38 black lungs suck ing in, 6
41 pump ing out the p crescendo poco a poco 44 breath of those songs, sempre crescendo 47 and the keys bab bled bab bled like so 50 ma ny tongues 7
53 What p f 57 she played was both hap py and 3 sad pp 63 I've 3 p 8
70 ne ver heard a mu si
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ble gift 3 74 so true and so mad. p as if in the distance 80 3 pp 84 Shelter Island NY: 21 July 2003 9
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1 q = 52 with langour YAWN poem
© JULIAN GRANT/CHRISTOPHER REID 2003. JULIAN GRANT ppp rapt
You have p no con sim: always arpeggiated p calm and sonorous 8 trol o ver it, so p be warned: 3 13 ppp you don't do the mf yawn ing, pp it's mf the 3 3 3 3 18 yawn p that yawns you. 3 3 23 You pp are yawned. mp very freely (d) 3 3 non arpegg. pp London: 10 March 2003 10
by CHRISTOPHER REID
and on the verge of yawning
CHRISTOPHER REID JULIAN GRANT
1 Very fast © JULIAN GRANT/CHRISTOPHER REID 2003. THE MAN FROM MATTAPAN e = 172 poem
I met a man from Mat ta pan, a migh ty p p f 7 man from Mat ta pan, the migh ti est man of all his clan, the migh ti est clan in 12 Mat ta pan I mean the clan Mc Mon a ghan. Mc Mon a ghan of Mc 11
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17 Mon a ghan, that was the man from Mat ta pan. I watched him as he ran and mf p 21 ran. He ran and ran crescendo a migh ty span: from Yu ca tán on the Isle of crescendo f p leggiero 25 Man to the sev en teenth moon of Al de ba ran, then back a gain to Mat ta 29 pan. And all the time he ran and ran he crescendo was munch ing some thing from a crescendo 12
34 can; he seemed to be lunch ing as he ran. 'O man' I said, f p espressivo 38 'are you munch ing bread?' 'Not bread', he said, 'but mar zi pan.' mf very rhythmic p 43 'Mar zi pan?' 'Yes, mar zi pan. Mar zi pan from a me tal mf 48 can, a migh ty, mot tled me tal can, that's meat for a 13
54 man from Mat ta pan!' 'O man' I said, 'do you have a plan?' 'A p mf 59 migh ty plan' he said, and be gan: pp 64 'Ve ry soon I shall reach the 14
69 moon and there I shall munch a ma ca roon, 74 a ma ca roon from a migh ty spoon, a migh ty, loco p 78 mot tled me tal spoon; and then I shall munch a flam ing flan, a 15
84 flam ing flan from a fry ing pan, a migh ty mot tled mf 89 fry ing pan, and then I shall munch a bin of bran, 93 bran from a bin of mot tled tin, a migh ty, mot tled 98 bin of tin; and then I shall gulp a gal lon of gin, 16
104 gin from a migh ty me tal bot tle, a migh ty mot tled me tal mf crescendo poco 111 bot tle; and then I shall gulp and guz zle and munch....' ff f 117 crescendo ff p 121 But pp I could bear that man no lon ger, and so at once I too be gan to run and mf pp leggiero 17
126 run, as far and as fast as a man can run munch ing a bun from a pa per bag, a 131 pe can, pop corn and pine ap ple bun from a pink and pur ple pa per p 135 bag. I ran and ran so far and so fast, I was not slow and I did not lag, un til at 18
140 last, when I could hear that man no lon ger, I sat right down on the sto ny ground f and made my crescendo f 144 own plan ne ff ver, ne ver, ne ver ff 149 to p go to Mat ta pan a gain. p pp Shelter Island NY: 29 July 2003 19