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"A setting for SSATB of a traditional riddle-rhyme. Old Noll was a nickname given to Oliver Cromwell by Royalist contemporaries, so the verse is assumed to date from the mid-seventeenth century. The final two lines are not part of the original text."

◈ Genre / Form → Folk Song

♯ Key C minor

⁄ Time Signature 4/4

♬ Voicing → SATB

◆ Difficulty

Advanced

↕ Range G2 – F5

¶ Language → English

Measures 68

Texture Homophonic

Parts 5

Instruments SATB

Pages 6

CPDL # 87064

Editor Jennifer Bastable

Posted 2025-10-09

License Personal

♫Pitch Ranges

Soprano

E-4 – F5

Part_1

D4 – C5

Part_2

B-3 – B4

Part_3

D4 – D5

Part_4

G2 – G3

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¶Lyrics / Text

Purple, yellow, red, and green, The king cannot reach it, nor the queen; Nor can old Noll, whose power's so great: Tell me this riddle while I count eight. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Richard of York gave battle in vain.