Budmouth Dears
| Song Title | Budmouth Dears (Search) |
| Composer(s): | Gerald Finzi |
| Author(s): | Thomas Hardy |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Aching; Beaches; Blue; Brown; Camps; Divine; Eyes; Faces; Figures; Flowing; Forgetting; Fresh; Frowning; Girls; Glancing; Gowns; Greeting; Hearts; Leaving; Living; Longing; Lovers; Loving; Marvels; Meeting; Memories; Missing; Parlors; Passage of Time; Peaches; Playing; Pleasant; Pranks; Regiments; Remembering; Returning; Roaming; Singing; Smiling; Soldiers; Towns; Transience; Traveling; Trysts; Wars; Wondering; Wooing; Youth |
| First Line | When we lay where Budmouth Beach is (Search) |
| Average Duration | 2:00 (Search) |
| Year of composition | 1929 (Search) |
| Link to English Text Online | http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=7202 |
| 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/22EDwbVHCeCU2w7p2ba3Qb?si=zhbZV8M8TeeEqIdUg9HKWw |
| Difficulty Level | Masters/YA (Search) |
| Catalog Designation | Op. 14 no. 3 (Search) |
| Voice part suggested by composer | Tenor |
| Range: | C#4 - A5 (Search) |
| Original Key | F# minor (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) |