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West London (A Sonnet)
Song Title
West London (A Sonnet) (
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Composer(s):
Charles Ives
Author(s):
Matthew Arnold
Keyword(s) & Features:
Asking
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Babies
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Beggars
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Begging
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Belgrave Square
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Better
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Children
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Cities
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Clothing
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Cold
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Common
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Connections
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Crouching
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Daughters
;
England
;
Examples
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Familiarity
;
Families
;
Feet
;
Friends
;
Frozen
;
Girls
;
Heartache
;
Humanity
;
London
;
Men
;
Mothers
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Noticing
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Observing
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Passing
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Pavement
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Pointing
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Poverty
;
Rags
;
Recounting
;
Rich
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Satisfaction
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Sharing
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Sickness
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Sorrow
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Speechlessness
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Spirits
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Staring
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States
;
Stories
;
Streets
;
Time
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Touching
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Towns
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Tramps
;
Turning
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Unknown
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Walking
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Women
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Work
First Line
Crouch'd on the pavement, close by Belgrave Square (
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Average Duration
3:15 (
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Year of composition
1921 (
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Link to English Text Online
http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=2019
Musical Form
Through-composed (
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Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups
Victorian (
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Original Language
English (
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Audio Source
https://open.spotify.com/track/470d3CTzxNaWABVoMz46za
Voice part suggested by composer
Medium voice
Range:
C4 - F5 (
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Contributor
AL (
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