Jabberwocky (A Vocal Solo) (Joel Hunsberger)
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(Posted 2026-03-01) CPDL #88525:
- Editor: Joel Hunsberger (submitted 2026-03-01). Score information: Unknown, 11 pages, 216 kB Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: Jabberwocky (A Vocal Solo)
Composer: Joel Hunsberger
Lyricist: Lewis Carroll
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Unison
Genre: Secular, Ballade
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
First published: 1972
Description: This interpretation of the Lewis Carroll poem "Jabberwocky" from Alice in Wonderland, was written in 1972. This is a vocal and piano satire playing on the nonsensical character of the poem itself.
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Original text and translations
English text
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”
He took his vorpal sword in hand;
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
He chortled in his joy.
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
See also: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42916/jabberwocky