The Cage

Song TitleThe Cage (Search)
Composer(s):Charles Ives
Author(s):Charles Ives
Keyword(s) & Features: Animals; Being Trapped; Boys; Cages; Captive; Composer is Poet; Hours; Leopards; Life; Meat; Metaphor: Life as Cage; Nervousness; Stopping; Wandering; Wondering; Youth; Zoos
First LineA leopard went around his cage (Search)
Average Duration1:00 (Search)
Year of composition 1906 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttp://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=8726
Musical FormThrough-composed (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsModernism (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Audio Source https://open.spotify.com/track/3j4q5MyPIQVREzUKmKtnTx
Catalog DesignationS. 221 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerMedium/Low voice
Range: D4 - E5 (Search)
ContributorAL (Search)
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