Finnissy, Michael - Beuk o'Newcassel Sangs

for soprano, clarinet, and piano A Beuk o'Newcassel Sangs is the title of a nineteenth-century folk-song collection. Finnissy uses the folk-song texts, with numerous alterations, as a starting point for this own melodic material. The seven songs evoke a folk quality through the use of heavily decorated modal tunes. Only one line of melody is heard at a time, and the clarinet and piano sustain drones around the vocal part or provide linking material.

CONTENTS

• Up the Raw, maw bonny
• I thought to marry a parson
• Buy broom buzzems
• A' the neet ower an' ower
• As me an' me marra was gannin' ta wark
• There's Quayside fer sailors
• It's O but aw ken weel