Sweet and Sour Nursery Rhymes (Vocal score)

for SATB and french hornLarsen takes three nursery rhymes, familiar to every adult from their childhood, and uses the vocal lines and horn to personify the characters in each rhyme.

In the first nursery rhyme, 'There was a little girl, ' the "horrid little girl" cavorts through the piece spouting blatant parallel fifths and brassy nonsense syllables and the setting of the last rhyme 'Try, try again' embodies success amidst many failed attempts.