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BTC916 THE TREES THEY GROW SO HIGH (SOMERSET FOLK SONG) [FSA 1/5, BRITISH ISLES]

For high or medium voice and piano
Composition date: pre Mar 1942
Date notes

The first volume of folk songs, of which this is number 5, were all composed when Britten was in the USA between 1939-1942. He left the States in March 1942.

Genre: Folk song
Text: Traditional
Duration: 3'
Dedication: 'To Bobby Rothman'

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