The White Gulls
Song Title | The White Gulls (Search) |
Composer(s): | Charles Ives |
Author(s): | Maurice Morris (after Anonymous Russian text) |
Keyword(s) & Features: | Birds; Breasts; Calling; Comfort; Crying; Dipping; Flying; Gray; Gulls; Heaving; Imagery; Men; Metaphor: Soul as Bird; Nature; Observing; Passage of Time; Receiving; Resting; Sinking; Slow; Souls; Spreading; Steel; Tides; Traveling; Turning; Water; Wheels; White; Wings |
First Line | The white gulls dip and wheel (Search) |
Average Duration | 2:30 (Search) |
Year of composition | 1921 (Search) |
Link to English Text Online | http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=11756 |
Musical Form | Through-composed (Search) |
Original Language | English (Search) |
Audio Source | https://open.spotify.com/track/6192rXurTIS05WemaFgzsS |
Catalog Designation | S. 391 (Search) |
Voice part suggested by composer | Medium/Low voice |
Range: | B3 - E5 (Search) |
Contributor | AL (Search) |