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"Rosamund's Dream", from the 1976 Broadway musical The Robber Bridegroom, as sung by Rhonda Coullet.
"Rosamund's Dream" is a very simple song that does a fantastic job at character definition. It takes up very little space -- under two minutes long, with two short verses and a two-line chorus repeated twice -- and the orchestration is very basic, very stripped-down, and it makes use of every inch of what it's got to define Rosamund.
She's a dreamer. She's naive. She believes in fairytales, and love, and that one day her prince will come. And she's got a very naive, childish, endearing kind of self-centeredness. And all that is established in this less-than-two-minute song, whether you've got any of the context of the rest of the show or not.
And it's just a really pretty lullaby. That, too.
Then a finer king on a finer horse
Will come the selfsame day
And he will bring his crown, of course
To tempt my love away
Rosamund, Rosamund, he will say
Rosamund, Rosamund, Rosamund, come away
"Rosamund's Dream" is a very simple song that does a fantastic job at character definition. It takes up very little space -- under two minutes long, with two short verses and a two-line chorus repeated twice -- and the orchestration is very basic, very stripped-down, and it makes use of every inch of what it's got to define Rosamund.
She's a dreamer. She's naive. She believes in fairytales, and love, and that one day her prince will come. And she's got a very naive, childish, endearing kind of self-centeredness. And all that is established in this less-than-two-minute song, whether you've got any of the context of the rest of the show or not.
And it's just a really pretty lullaby. That, too.
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