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Three Pastels is a set of three pieces for piano solo composed in 1941 by John Ireland. A performance of all three pieces takes about 9 minutes. They are: 1. * A Grecian Lad 2. * The Boy Bishop 3. * Puck's Birthday A pastel is an artwork made using a colouring medium in the form of a stick which consists of powdered pigment and a binder; the stick too is called a pastel. Pastel drawings are often delicate in tone, which may explain Ireland's choice of title for this set of gentle impressionistic pieces. The jonquil is a species of narcissus, Narcissus jonquilla.

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  • Three Pastels is a set of three pieces for piano solo composed in 1941 by John Ireland. A performance of all three pieces takes about 9 minutes. They are: 1. * A Grecian Lad 2. * The Boy Bishop 3. * Puck's Birthday A pastel is an artwork made using a colouring medium in the form of a stick which consists of powdered pigment and a binder; the stick too is called a pastel. Pastel drawings are often delicate in tone, which may explain Ireland's choice of title for this set of gentle impressionistic pieces. The title A Grecian Lad may have been taken from A. E. Housman's poem "Look not in my eyes, for fear", No. XV in his 1896 collection A Shropshire Lad. It refers to the Greek legend of Narcissus, who fell in love with his own reflection: A Grecian lad, as I hear tell, One that many loved in vain, Looked into a forest well And never looked away again. There, when the turf in springtime flowers, With downward eye and gazes sad, Stands amid the glancing showers A jonquil, not a Grecian lad. The jonquil is a species of narcissus, Narcissus jonquilla. In the Middle Ages, it was a widespread custom to appoint a boy bishop, for example from among cathedral choristers, to parody the actual bishop on some particular church feast day. Puck is a mischievous supernatural creature in Celtic folklore. He is perhaps best known from the character Puck in Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream. (en)
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  • Three Pastels is a set of three pieces for piano solo composed in 1941 by John Ireland. A performance of all three pieces takes about 9 minutes. They are: 1. * A Grecian Lad 2. * The Boy Bishop 3. * Puck's Birthday A pastel is an artwork made using a colouring medium in the form of a stick which consists of powdered pigment and a binder; the stick too is called a pastel. Pastel drawings are often delicate in tone, which may explain Ireland's choice of title for this set of gentle impressionistic pieces. The jonquil is a species of narcissus, Narcissus jonquilla. (en)
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