sentences:  The work is untypical of its composer, who was not usually associated with comedy in music.Bax was generally associated with music that the 1955 reference work "The Record Guide" called "intrinsically noble, humane, and capable of a certain melancholy grandeur".In his youth, Bax had been greatly taken with the works of Richard Strauss, before his enthusiasm was diverted to a fascination with Celtic culture.