The Flying Squirrel - generously provided by African Diaspora Music Project

Song TitleThe Flying Squirrel - generously provided by African Diaspora Music Project (Search)
Composer(s):T. J. (Thomas Jefferson) Anderson Jr.
Composer Underrepresented GroupAfrican-American; POC; Black (Search)
Author(s):Elye Alexander
Keyword(s) & Features: Accomplices; Amusement; Animals; Bird Feeders; Blinking; Books; Breath; Calm; Cats; Conspiring; Desserts; Eating; Eyes; Flashes; Flying Squirrels; Food; Grandsons; Gray; Handful; Holding; Humor; Hunched; Jars; Joining; Knocking; Lamps; Leaping; Light; Looking; Metaphor: Speaker as Grandson; Metaphor: Squirrel as Old Man; Mischief; Mouths; Munching; Nature; Night; Noses; Old Men; Peanut Butter; Personification: Squirrel; Quick; Raiding; Reading; Refrigerators; Resting; Secret; Seeds; Sitting; Smiles; Sneaking; Sprinkling; Squirrels; Stealing; Stuffing; Sunflowers; Swinging; Taking; Waking Up; Watching; Whispering; Windowpanes; Windows; Wobbling; World
First LineIt’s night, the early hours, (Search)
Year of composition 2011 (Search)
Larger WorkCornerstones (Search)
Musical FormThrough-composed (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Score Source https://www.worldcat.org/title/cornerstones-a-song-cycle-for-soprano-and-piano/oclc/882116603&referer=brief_results
Catalog DesignationNo. 3 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerSoprano
Range: Ab3 - Ab5 (Search)
Dedicated ToLouise Toppin (Search)
Premiered ByLouise Toppin (Search)
Recommended Printed Sourcehttps://composers.com/composers/tj-anderson/cornerstones (Search)
Sources CitedAfrican Diaspora Music Project, created by Dr. Louise Toppin (Search)
ContributorDr. Louise Toppin; GTM (Search)
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