Ditty
| Song Title | Ditty (Search) |
| Composer(s): | Gerald Finzi |
| Author(s): | Thomas Hardy |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Admiring; Birds; Chance; Change; Devotion; Dwelling; Earth; Fabric; Fair; Forgetting; Friends; Glances; Houses; Kissing; Labors; Legends; Life; Living; Longing; Love; Loving; Meeting; Men; Merchants; Missing; Neighbors; Pain; Passage of Time; Paths; Playing; Severe; Stone; Strange; Sweet; Telling; Transience; True; Unrequited Love; Wandering; Withering; Writing; Yearning |
| First Line | Beneath a knap where flown (Search) |
| Average Duration | 3:15 (Search) |
| Year of composition | 1928 (Search) |
| Link to English Text Online | http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=7230 |
| Larger Work | A Young Man's Exhortation (Search) |
| Musical Form | Modified strophic (Search) |
| Original Language | English (Search) |
| Score Source | http://www.boosey.com/shop/prod/Finzi-Gerald-Collected-Songs-high-voice-piano/2013941 |
| Audio Source | https://open.spotify.com/track/3ikqUaHEVa1PzXj568CGTT?si=f7GSwcQRQaqJllkkj7-oRg |
| Difficulty Level | College (Search) |
| Catalog Designation | Op. 14 no. 2 (Search) |
| Voice part suggested by composer | Tenor |
| Range: | D4 - G5 (Search) |
| Original Key | G Major (Search) |
| Notes | Also available in low key. This is the only group of songs by Finzi to be considered a song cycle rather than a song set, since it has overarching themes of life, transience, and death. (Search) |
| Recommended Printed Source | Boosey & Hawkes (Search) |
| Sources Cited | http://www.finzisong.com/young_mans_exhortation.html (Search) |
| Contributor | JEM (Search) |