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Kennedy comments that in this song Walton uses a different figuration for each of the three stanzas. Sadie remarked on the music's "grey and grave sonorities". He was not certain that the orchestral version of this song was an improvement on "concentration and intimacy" of the piano original.
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591:. Woodbridge: Boydell.
587:Lloyd, Stephen (2002).
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402:Last Night of the Proms
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