A Blackbird Singing

20th-Century English Song

Michael Head served in a munitions factory in the First World War. He composed the song cycle Over the rim of the moon (1918) to words by the poet Francis Ledwidge who was killed in action near Ypres in 1917. All four songs from the complete cycle for high voice are available individually:

1. The Ships of Arcady
2. Beloved
3. A Blackbird Singing
4. Nocturne