Kathleen Ryan: Music
All the Pretty Little Horses
(Kathleen Ryan)
1994-01-01
folk song lullaby, arranged for piano
I know one musician who maintains every pianist should learn a Chopin nocturne every spring (until they're all learned, of course.) There is something decadent even in the midst of the new growth of spring, and to him Chopin's music captures that completely.
This is my spring nocturne, mysterious and a little bit decadent. I was remembering North Carolina as I set it...
Hush-a-bye, don't you cry
Go to sleep-y, little baby
When you wake, you shall have cake
And all the pretty little horses
Black & bay, dapple & gray
Coach and six white horses