Halfway Down

This mischievous setting of A. A. Milne’s beloved poem caters to both medium and high voice ranges. In the tonality of F Major, the contrary motion F Major scale playfully represents the staircase and the dominant note, the favorite step on the stair. Imagination takes off with a vision of a visit to the Big Ben clock tower in London with a mouse running up then down the clock from the nursery rhyme “Hickory Dickory Dock.” This piece has tongue-in-cheek humor and opportunities for dramatic storytelling in both the vocal and piano parts.