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"H" was a Heron (from An Edward Lear Nonsense Alphabet)
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You are purchasing high quality sheet music PDF files suitable for printing or viewing on digital devices.From "An Edward Lear Nonsense Alphabet". All my nonsense alphabet songs are parodistic. This one is in the style of a heroic Handelian French Overture or Oratorio. It suggests the Heron strutting, then soaring in flight. The vocal part (to this one only) is extremely virtuosic, having a range of over two octaves. I have ignored one of the tenets of good vocal writing – I ask the singer to sing "ee" in the highest register – and pianissimo at that! But that's part of the humor (I hope!) "H was a Heron / Who stood in a stream, / And the length of his neck / And his legs was extreme."
