Eight Songs for a Mad King
Album by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies & The Fires of London & Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Eight Songs for a Mad King is a song cycle by British composer Peter Maxwell Davies, composed in 1969. The work blends modernist techniques with extended vocal and instrumental effects, employing sprechstimme, extreme vocal ranges and jagged, dissonant textures to convey a dramatic psychological narrative, and it occupies an important place in Davies's early career and in the development of British avant-garde vocal music.
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- 1.Eight Songs for a Mad King: Country Dance (Scotch Bonnett)
- 2.Eight Songs for a Mad King: The Sentry (King Prussia's Minuet)
- 3.Eight Songs for a Mad King: The Country Walk (La Promenade)
- 4.Eight Songs for a Mad King: The Lady-In-Waiting (Miss Musgrave's Fancy)
- 5.Eight Songs for a Mad King: To Be Sung on the Water (The Waterman)
- 6.Eight Songs for a Mad King: The Phantom Queen (He's Ay A-Kissing Me)
- 7.Eight Songs for a Mad King: The Counterfeit (Le Conterfaite)
- 8.Eight Songs for a Mad King: The Review (A Spanish March)
