Britten Thematic Catalogue

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BTC210 BUNNIES

For voice and piano
Composition date: Post Aug 1924
Date notes

Shares a volume with one of the sources for Independence, which Britten later noted had been originally composed in Aug 1924. The 'Independence' source was copied out some time after its original composition date.

Genre: Solo vocal
Text: Chanticleer [a.k.a. G.F. Joy]

In the prefatory note to Tit for tat (Faber music, 1969) Britten refers to 'an obscure magazine poet "Chanticleer"', which was the pen-name of G.F. Joy.

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