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The puritan's ballad
Song Title
The puritan's ballad (
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Composer(s):
John Woods Duke
Author(s):
Elinor Wylie
Author Underrepresented Group
Woman (
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Keyword(s) & Features:
Alarms
;
Arms
;
Azure
;
Balance
;
Barnegat
;
Beauty
;
Bending
;
Blowing
;
Blue
;
Boats
;
Bothering
;
Bowing
;
Bright
;
Brown
;
Brows
;
Busy
;
Captains
;
Carefree
;
Cats
;
Claws
;
Clinking
;
Coiled
;
Comfort
;
Contentment
;
Copper
;
Couples
;
Courtship
;
Covering
;
Cream
;
Crowns
;
Cruel
;
Cutting
;
Deep
;
Descriptions
;
Devil
;
Dogs
;
Dragons
;
Dread
;
Dreams
;
Eternal Love
;
Eyes
;
Faces
;
Faithfulness
;
Falling
;
Falling in Love
;
Fear
;
Feathers
;
Feet
;
Fidelity
;
Fingers
;
First Love
;
Fishes
;
Fists
;
Flames
;
Folding
;
Foreign
;
Friends
;
Gales
;
God
;
Granting
;
Hair
;
Handkerchiefs
;
Hands
;
Happiness
;
Heads
;
Hearts
;
Heels
;
Hickories
;
Husbands
;
Ink
;
Kittens
;
Knives
;
Knuckles
;
Laying
;
Leaping
;
Lies
;
Limbs
;
Lions
;
Living
;
Logs
;
Love
;
Lovers
;
Manes
;
Marriage
;
Memories
;
Men
;
Missing
;
Moments
;
Names
;
Nervousness
;
Palms
;
Pans
;
Past
;
Paws
;
Pensive
;
Pigeons
;
Piles
;
Pines
;
Pins
;
Polished
;
Prayers
;
Quick
;
Reading
;
Recounting
;
Remembering
;
Reminiscing
;
Resting
;
Reunions
;
Rings
;
Sailing
;
Sailors
;
Sails
;
Scrolls
;
Seas
;
Separation
;
Seven
;
Seventy
;
Shaking
;
Shining
;
Ships
;
Silver
;
Sinking
;
Sleeping
;
Smooth
;
Snakes
;
Soft
;
Soon
;
Speaking
;
Springing
;
Stories
;
Strength
;
Sun
;
Teeth
;
Terrible
;
Terriers
;
Thanks
;
Thick
;
Thunder
;
Tigers
;
Time
;
Tortoiseshell
;
Touching
;
Traveling
;
Trees
;
Twenty
;
Unions
;
Veins
;
Velvet
;
Vows
;
Walking
;
Water
;
Wearing
;
Weddings
;
Weeks
;
Welding
;
Wild
;
Will
;
Winter
;
Wives
;
Wonderful
;
Wood Shavings
;
Worry
;
Wrinkles
;
Wrists
;
Years
;
Yellow
;
Youth
Year of composition
1946 (
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Link to English Text Online
http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=74025
Musical Form
Through-composed (
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Original Language
English (
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Voice part suggested by composer
Soprano
Range:
C4 - A5 (
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Recommended Printed Source
The John Duke Collection: Songs for voice and piano (
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Contributor
AL (
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