Scored for soprano, clarinet and piano the work is in five short movements with the texts for the two songs by James Joyce and taken from pomes pennyeach.

I Piano piece 1

II 'Tutto a sciolto'

III Interlude for clarinet and piano

IV 'A flower given to my daughter'

V Piano piece 2

The first performance was given by Jean Knibbs (soprano), Anton Weinberg (clarinet) and Wendy Nightingale (piano) at the University of Leeds in 1978.