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Edith Sitwell was writing poems which were concerned with word-play, rhythms and onomatopoeia. They had started out as technical exercises - she was attempting to obtain, purely through the written word, the rhythm of the waltz, polka and fox-trot. When Edith was told that this was very clever - but just a façade, the name stuck. It was then decided that they would sound better if they were set to music - and who else should do this but Walton?

Within Facade, the poems were known to be abstract in that they could not be easily translated. Sitwell ommented, "they [the poems] are patterns in sound...they are, too, in many cases virtuoso exercises of an extreme difficulty."

Titles of the poems are listed below:

Fanfare
Hornpipe
En famille
Mariner Man
Long Steel Grass
Through Gilded Trellises
Tango-Pasodoblé
Lullaby for Jumbo
Black Mrs. Behemoth
Tarantella
The Man from a Far Countree
By the Lake
Country Dance
Polka
Four in the Morning
Something Lies beyond the Scene
Valse
Jodelling Song
Scotch Rhapsody
Popular Song
Fox-trot ('Old Sir Faulk')
Sir Beelzebub