Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
| Song Title | Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (Search) |
| Composer(s): | Frank Felice |
| Author(s): | Wallace Stevens |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Accents; Afternoon; Apostrophe; Autumn; Barbaric; Beauty; Birds; Blackbirds; Branches; Causes; Cedars; Circles; Coaches; Comparisons; Connecticut; Connection to Nature; Crossing; Crying; Equipage; Euphony; Evening; Eyes; Fear; Feet; Feminine Imagery; Flying; Foreboding; Glass; Golden; Green; Haddam, Connecticut; Icicles; Imagery; Imagining; Inescapable; Innuendos; Inscrutable; Light; Limbs; Lucid; Men; Metaphor: Speaker as Tree; Mind; Moods; Mountains; Moving; Nature; Noble; Omens; Ominous; Oneness; Pantomimes; Piercing; Relationships; Rhythms; Riding; Rivers; Seeing; Shadows; Sharp; Snow; Snowing; Snowy; Stillness; Thin; Tracing; Trees; Walking; Whirling; Whistling; Wind; Windows; Winter; Women |
| First Line | Among twenty snowy mountains, the only moving thing was the eye of the blackbird (Search) |
| Average Duration | 18:00 (Search) |
| Year of composition | 2018 (Search) |
| Link to English Text Online | https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45236/thirteen-ways-of-looking-at-a-blackbird |
| Musical Form | Through-composed (Search) |
| Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups | Modernism (Search) |
| Original Language | English (Search) |
| Audio Source | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfBDiX9c_Dw |
| Difficulty Level | Professional (Search) |
| Voice part suggested by composer | Low voice |
| Range: | F3 - G5 (Search) |
| Dedicated To | Mitzi Westra (Search) |
| Premiered By | Mitzi Westra (Search) |
| Commissioned By | Mitzi Westra (Search) |
| Recommended Printed Source | Mad Italian Bros. Ink. publishing (Search) |
| Contributor | Frank Felice (Search) |
| Contributor Affiliation | Butler University (Search) |