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Preciosilla
Song Title
Preciosilla (
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Composer(s):
Virgil Thomson
Author(s):
Gertrude Stein
Author Underrepresented Group
Woman; LGBTQ+ (
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Keyword(s) & Features:
Absurdism
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Arranging
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Assonance
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Bait
;
Bands
;
Beans
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Black
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Bleeding
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Blue
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Bows
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Bright
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Certain
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Clare
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Clothing
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Colors
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Consonance
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Cousins
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Diamonds
;
Doors
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Dots
;
Fiery
;
Fire
;
Going
;
Gold
;
Grass
;
Green
;
Grief
;
Growing
;
Guessing
;
Guests
;
Hanging
;
Ice Cream
;
Imagery
;
Knots
;
Large
;
Lean
;
Life
;
Light
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Lilies
;
Limes
;
Lint
;
Lots
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Mangling
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Matches
;
Melting
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Modernism
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Natural
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Nobility
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Odors
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Pens
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Pink
;
Pinning
;
Please
;
Preciosilla
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Prime
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Rhyme
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Sap
;
Scarves
;
Seats
;
Shady
;
Showing
;
Shut
;
Signs
;
Single
;
Sitting
;
Size
;
Sleeping
;
Snuff
;
Stammering
;
Stems
;
Strange
;
Stringing
;
Sugar
;
Sun
;
Surrealism
;
Susie
;
Swimming
;
Torn
;
Vacant
;
Vests
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Washing
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Water
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Weather
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Weeding
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Wet
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White
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Willows
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Winning
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Withering
;
Yellow
First Line
Cousin to Clare washing (
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Average Duration
4:00 (
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Year of composition
1948 (
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Link to English Text Online
https://songofamerica.net/song/preciosilla/
Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups
Modernism (
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Original Language
English (
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Audio Source
https://open.spotify.com/track/0C3SaMijxBfkQVLXLNJ4i1
Voice part suggested by composer
High voice
Range:
Eb4 - A5 (
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Recommended Printed Source
Collected Songs of Virgil Thomson; New York, G. Schirmer (
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Contributor
GTM (
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