Former beauties
| Song Title | Former beauties (Search) |
| Composer(s): | Gerald Finzi |
| Author(s): | Thomas Hardy |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Aging; Beauty; Courting; Dames; Fair; Forgetting; Green; Growing Old; Life; Lips; Living; Loving; Memories; Moonlight; Old; Passage of Time; Pink; Remembering; Satin; Shores; Summer; Sunday; Swearing; Transfiguring; Transience; Tunes; Vowing; Wondering; Years; Young; Youth |
| First Line | These market-dames, mid-aged, with lips thin-drawn (Search) |
| Average Duration | 3:00 (Search) |
| Year of composition | 1927 (Search) |
| Link to English Text Online | http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=7240 |
| Larger Work | A Young Man's Exhortation (Search) |
| Musical Form | Through-composed (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/73BZ7s9eZi812FPyODupYv?si=Px6FHW4ZS8CC7B91nGr9Sg |
| Difficulty Level | Masters/YA (Search) |
| Catalog Designation | Op. 14 no. 8 (Search) |
| Voice part suggested by composer | Tenor |
| Range: | D4 - A5 (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) |