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Nursery rhymes are a staple part of my daily reading habits. My children Ellie and Evan, love to sit and listen to me read from their Mother Goose books. They both have brought me a great deal of compositional inspiration. Ellie and Evan have opened up a whole new way of perceiving the world, especially music. This setting of Humpty Dumpty is no exception. The piece is in ternary form. The first section and the repeat play on the imagery of Humpty Dumpty and his fall by way of a sprightly tempo and descending movement in the voices. A majestic tone is set while the king’s men and horses try to. . . well, you’ll get the picture. (The MP3 is a live recording performed by the Greenleaf Singers & Friends during my Masters Degree concert: A Journey Begun)
