MOTHER Lully, lullay, my child, my lamb [Head]1 of gold, read as the sun is red Who when the long day is done [Tugs]2 boots off, draws wool night-cap on, Then pulls the blankets up over his head. Lully, lullay. [...] GODMAMMA On a horse? [...] GODMAMMA Soon or late must come last My prince… Hoofs of fire! Eyes so wild Whose black hair streams in the black blast… Weeping she said ‘Sleep, sleep my child’ [...] PETER I hear hoofs. [...] VOICE WITHOUT Once. [Twice.]3 [...] GODMAMMA A bargain with you, Death. [...] DEATH Now. [...] DEATH No! It is time! [...] MOTHER [He’s]4 laughing.
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with The Rider by Night. Play in one act by Edward Lightfoot (to be performed with musical accompaniment), ed. by Marc-André Roberge, Bath: The Sorabji Archive; critical edition (as part of a critical edition for the corresponding work by K. S. Sorabji), 2008, pages 54-57, 59, 61, 65-66. Excerpts as set by K. S. Sorabji. These excerpts appear as sung text or spoken cues in Sorabji’s extant manuscript (pages 21-40 of Sorabji's manuscript are missing). Text that is spoken in Sorabji’s setting rather than sung is formatted here in italics.
1 Sorabji: "hair"2 Sorabji: "skips"
3 omitted by Sorabji
4 Sorabji: "He is"
Authorship:
- by Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols (1893 - 1944), as Edward Lightfoot, no title, written 1919, appears in The Rider by Night, first published 2008 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Kaikhosru Sorabji, born Leon Dudley Sorabji (1892 - 1988), "Music to "The Rider by Night"", KSS 22 (1919), published 2008 [ orchestra and voices ], Bath, The Sorabji Archive; critical edition [ sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2018-09-08
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