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IRISH SONGS 243
incidentally the names of some other composers with whose work he has closely associated himself; and I do not think I can do better than quote his actual words :—
"I trust that you will bear in mind that the old Irish and folk-song generally is only a type —a groove of its own—in the world of song, and that the thoughts of the young singer should be turned with gratitude to the great modern songwriters of our own language—Parry, Stanford, Walford Davies, Charles Wood, Arthur Somervell, Roger Quilter, Ernest Walker, Vaughan Williams, and all the other men who have kept up a noble standard and never dropped it."
Of Sir Hubert Parry's songs he especially mentions "Through the Ivory Gate," " Nightfall in Winter," and, for lightness of touch and delightful humour, " Follow a shadow" and "The Laird of Cockpen." Parry's beautiful settings of Elizabethan lyrics are also, of course, well known.
Walford Davies's "When Childher Plays," "Sweet Content," "Manhood," and "Tap o' th' Hill"; Charles Wood's "Ethiopia saluting the colours," "O Captain, my Captain," and all his settings of Walt Whitman ; Arthur Somervell's Maud cycle, Roger Quilter's Shakespeare songs, and his settings of Herrick, for which he has found so admirable and sympathetic an interpreter |
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