The Old Person of Cassel (Margaret Ruthven Lang)

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• (Posted 2023-11-08)  CPDL #77113:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-08).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 698 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The Old Person of Cassel
Composer: Margaret Ruthven Lang
Lyricist: Edward Lear
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1909 Arthur P. Schmidt
Description: Arranged for mixed voices by composer from: Nonsense Rhymes and Pictures by Edward Lear, Op. 42

Original text and translations

English text

There was an Old Person of Cassel,
Whose nose finished off in a tassel;
But they call’d out, “Oh well!
Don’t it look like a bell!”
Which perplexed that Old Person of Cassel.