Description
Kallman Creates Publications
SSAA, piano four-hands. Duration: 4’20”
This is the second piece in the set called Three About Babies. The other movements are for SATB and piano four-hands.
(Note: Score is in manuscript form.)
Listen to “A Cradle Song”
(The Meistersingers of Cherry Creek High School, Englewood, CO; Richard Larson conducting)
View “A Cradle Song”
Composer’s Notes
This is the second piece in Three About Babies, a primarily SATB set I was commissioned to write for the Meistersingers of Cherry Creek High School, Colorado. Here is the text, by Elizabethan dramatist Thomas Dekker:
Golden slumbers kiss your eyes,
Smiles awake you when you rise;
Sleep, pretty wantons, do not cry,
And I will sing a lullaby,
Rock them, rock them, lullaby.
Care is heavy, therefore sleep you,
You are care, and care must keep you;
Sleep, pretty wantons, do not cry,
And I will sing a lullaby,
Rock them, rock them, lullaby.
–Thomas Dekker
