A Pair of Limericks

A Pair of Limericks Music by Louis Mander Verse by Stephen Fry

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Contents Texts ............................................................................................iv 1. The Tenor from Tring.............................................................1 2. A Basso Profundo Called Prebble..........................................18 About the Composer....................................................................10

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Texts The Tenor from Tring A Wagnerian tenor from Tring, Liked to sit on the toilet and sing, After egg mayonnaise, He’d sit there for days And push out the whole of the Ring!

A Basso Profundo Called Prebble A basso profundo called Prebble Thought himself quite the rebel.

Though warned it was silly, He lubed up with chili, And now he sings as a treble!

About the work: These two short songs A Pair of Limericks, are in a way, an homage to the piquant chansons of Francis Poulenc; with their surface-level mischief and underlying wry wit. Never taken too seriously, this rather cheeky melange of Stephen Fry’s witty words and Louis Mander’s memorable music make a refreshing sorbet to standard programme of song repertoire, or as an encore, or simply for enjoyment at home!

for Elliott

The Tenor from Tring

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STEPHEN FRY

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         electrically                                   Andante humoristico  = 59

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LOUIS MANDER (2020)

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ped. sim.

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- ner

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        

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i - an

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          

    

ten - or from Tring

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    

  

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         

   

      

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A Wag - ner - i - an ten - or from Tring,

              

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cantando ed espress.           

  

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a Wag -

                     

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Copyright © 2020 Fry & Mander. All Rights Reserved.

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Liked to

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for Paul Sheehan

A Basso Profundo Called Prebble

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STEPHEN FRY

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   

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LOUIS MANDER (2020)

       

In broad march tempo  = 60

                          

 

       

sempre con ped.

a tempo

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           with vulgarity      

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              

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   

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              

          

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     

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  

        

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ritenuto

       

     

         

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                      

          

                            

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About the Composer

Louis Mander www.louismander.com British composer Louis Mander trained at The Royal College of Music in London and Birmingham University. His music is internationally performed and includes a prolific output of chamber opera, vocal music, chamber music, concerti and music for film. He has collaborated with numerous writers and librettists including the actor & writer Stephen Fry, with whom he created the chamber opera The Life to Come, an adaptation of EM Forster’s exotic gay novella.

He has most recently collaborated with the British poet Pam Ayres on a new musical based on J.M Barrie’s Peter Pan, which is published by Nick Hern Publications. Singers and musicians alike are passionately engaged with Mander’s music, and most recently international baritone Roderick Williams and pianist Iain Burnside have taken up his song cycle A Rondel of Gloucestershire in recital performance.