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Richard Cory
Song record
peer reviewed
by Editorial Board member: Gregory Zavracky
Song Title
Richard Cory (
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Composer(s):
John Woods Duke
Author(s):
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Keyword(s) & Features:
Admiring
;
Bread
;
Bullets
;
Calm
;
Clean
;
Education
;
Fluttering
;
Gentlemen
;
Glittering
;
Grace
;
Guns
;
Heads
;
Home
;
Kings
;
Meat
;
Mental Illness
;
Night
;
Pavement
;
Pulses
;
Quiet
;
Rich
;
Richard
;
Slim
;
Stories
;
Story
;
Suicide
;
Summer
;
Towns
;
Wishing
;
Working
First Line
Whenever Richard Cory went down town (
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Average Duration
2:30 (
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Year of composition
1945 (
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Link to English Text Online
http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=13728
Musical Form
Modified strophic (
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Original Language
English (
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Score Source
https://www.classicalvocalrep.com/products/Richard-Cory-and-Selected-Songs-153166.html?sid=cb3bc4ff631bfd020117a15ecb929fdc
Audio Source
https://open.spotify.com/track/5NbxPGFp5KbnN6YGdW1FEr?si=7t_ElQ5bTvCVkEdZWYBl0A
Difficulty Level
College; Masters/YA (
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Range:
A3 - Eb5 (
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Original Key
Bb Major (
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Recommended Printed Source
Carl Fischer, “John Duke: Richard Cory and Selected Songs” (
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Contributor
JEM (
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