Composition Year | 1897 |
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Genre Categories | Songs; For voice, piano; For voices with keyboard; |
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Work Title | Learning to Ride the Byke |
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Alternative. Title | Humorous Ditty |
Composer | Montague, Harold |
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. | IHM 3 |
Key | E-flat major |
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. | 1897 |
First Performance. | 1897 |
First Publication. | 1897 |
Librettist | Composer |
Language | English |
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period | Early 20th century |
Piece Style | Early 20th century |
Instrumentation | voice, piano |
Extra Information | A nice little ditty about someone learning to ride a bike, when they were still partly a novelty. The lyrics are a parody of Tennyson's "May Queen", once a very popular poem regarding someone becoming a monarch, a May Queen. The epic throne being lampooned into a small child learning to ride a bicycle is definitely amusing. The earliest example of Montague's music before his Vagabonds stardom, where he was seen as a fresh entertainer at the piano similar to Corney Grain. |