Three Moon Songs

Song Cycle by Nico Muhly (b. 1981)

1. Harlequin
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
Gleaming like a solar spectrum,
The slender Harlequin
Accosts the sad old servant
And rumples her great cape.

To quiet her quick temper
He makes a sequin shine.
Gleaming like a solar spectrum,
The slender Harlequin.

Now the sad old woman, pocketing her fee,
Brings Columbine to the roguish knave.
He sings out gleefully,
Gleaming like a solar spectrum.

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