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_Two Nonsense Songs’ (2003/2004) - 6'
for solo voice/voice+piano

_Song 1 Didgeridoo, premiered by Martina Schilling (Mez-solo). Song 2, Floccinaucinihilipilification premiered by Maya Kasir (Soprano), Nigel Foster (pf). May 2004, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London.
Live performance by Martina Schilling (mezzo)
Didgeridoo by daveflynn
Live performance by Maya Kasir (soprano) and Nigel Foster (piano)
Floccinauccinihilipilification by daveflynn

Programme Note

_These two 'songs' have no real meaning, well maybe they do, but they are nonsensical really and are as much influenced by Monty Python and Spike Milligan as anyone else.

'Didgeridoo' is simply a vocal imitation of a didgeridoo. The singer is given some written instructions on how to produce didgeridooish sounds and then improvises using certain guidelines.

'Floccinaucinihilipilification' is all about words and it features some of the longest words in the English language including the longest Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis, which is the last word in the song.
Incidentally Floccinaucinihilipilification means 'an estimation of something as worthless', perhaps it is an apt title for this nonsense song then!
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        • The Clare Concerto
        • Aontacht
        • Music for the Departed (orchestra)
        • The Mahatma of the Glen
        • The Man from Maghera Rambles Through Africa
        • Echoes of Bamako
        • Mesh
        • An Irish Farrago
        • ‘The Mountain Lark/Tom Doherty’s Reel’
      • Ensemble
        • Joy
        • Le Chéile is in Aonar
        • Stories from the Old World
        • Quirk No.3 'Goss Face'
        • Quirk No.5 'Horrific Spasm'
        • Manipulations
        • Polymetric Cycles
      • Vocal/Choral
        • Mna Brian Boru
        • Protest Song; Chanson de Protestation; Amhrán Agóid; Protesta Cancion
        • Liadain agus Cuirithir
        • Taibhreamh Ó Ríada
        • Full Circle
        • I Have Always Known
        • Two Nonsense Songs
        • Electric Guichair
      • String Quartets
        • No.3 - The Keening
        • No.2 - The Cranning
        • No.1 - Fairground Attractions
      • Guitar
        • An Irish Raga
        • Passacaglia
        • 5to9
        • Rainstorm
        • Four Études for Five Fingers
        • Two Minimalist Etudes
        • Homage Sonatina
        • Three Gymn O’Paddy’s
        • Rollercoaster
      • Guitar Quartets
        • Chimurenga
        • Kora
        • Sebene
        • Against Feldman
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        • Cran Óg
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        • Quirk No.7
        • Toccata for Obama
        • The Forest of Ornaments
        • Ómos do Frankie Kennedy
        • Shadowplay
        • Quirk No.1
      • Violin
        • The Longest Reel (Solo Fiddle)
        • The Valley of the Lunatics
        • Between the Jigs & the Reels
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        • Tar Éis an Caoineadh (Solo violin/fiddle)
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