Tillie's All Sorts - a song cycle

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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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      1 Allegretto, with sprung rhythm q = 84 STREET MUSIC © JULIAN GRANT/CHRISTOPHER REID 2003.
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                                                                    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   
  a
  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
cian
who had such
dou
      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
      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

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