Learning to Ride the Byke (Montague, Harold)

Composition Year	1897
Genre Categories	Songs; For voice, piano; For voices with keyboard; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring the piano; English language

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Publisher. Info.	London: Moore, Smith & Co., n.d.(ca.1897).
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Work Title	Learning to Ride the Byke
Alternative. Title	Humorous Ditty
Composer	Montague, Harold
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.	IHM 3
Key	E-flat major
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.	1897
First Performance.	1897
First Publication.	1897
Librettist	Composer
Language	English
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Early 20th century
Piece Style	Early 20th century
Instrumentation	voice, piano
Extra Information	A nice little ditty about someone learning to ride a bike, when they were still partly a novelty. The lyrics are a parody of Tennyson's "May Queen", once a very popular poem regarding someone becoming a monarch, a May Queen. The epic throne being lampooned into a small child learning to ride a bicycle is definitely amusing. The earliest example of Montague's music before his Vagabonds stardom, where he was seen as a fresh entertainer at the piano similar to Corney Grain.