A Cradle Song

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Song TitleA Cradle Song (Search)
Composer(s):John Alden Carpenter
Author(s):William Blake
Keyword(s) & Features: Addressee: Baby; Babe; Babies; Beauty; Beguiling; Bright; Charms; Cheeks; Children; Creeping; Cunning; Desires; Dreaming; Earth; Eyes; Faces; Falling Asleep; Harvest; Hearts; Heaven; Infants; Joy; Lightning; Lullaby; Night; Peace; Pretty; Secret; Simple; Singing; Sleep; Sleeping; Smiles; Soft; Songs; Sorrows; Sweet; Tracing; Weeping
First LineSleep, sleep, beauty bright (Search)
Average Duration3:00 (Search)
Year of composition 1912 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttp://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=2696
Larger WorkEight Songs for a Medium voice (Search)
Musical FormTernary (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsRomanticism (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Score Source https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/7/73/IMSLP234331-SIBLEY1802.15243.d7e1-39087012000206cradle.pdf
Audio Source https://open.spotify.com/track/7wbyEOqfILXf04RA9Zw9C7?si=Uthbjj54Q1SWIqifbAGXZA
Difficulty LevelHS (Search)
Catalog DesignationEight Songs for a Medium voice, no. 8 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerMedium voice
Range: C4 - Eb5 (Search)
Original KeyAb Major (Search)
NotesCarpenter sets stanzas 1 and 2 of the original poem. (Search)
ContributorJEM (Search)
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