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BTC724 WHERE IS FANCY BRED? [MISSING]

For mixed voices
Composition date: 17 Jul 1931
Genre: Choral (unaccompanied)
Text: William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Notes

Britten set this work as a madrigal during an exam at the Royal College of Music, describing it in his diary as 'v. weak'. The text is the same as that in Fancie (May 1961).

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