The snake charmer

Song TitleThe snake charmer (Search)
Composer(s):Liza Lehmann
Composer Underrepresented GroupWoman (Search)
Author(s):Sarojini Naidu
Author Underrepresented GroupWoman; POC (Search)
Keyword(s) & Features: Addressee: Snake; Animals; Baskets; Blooms; Brides; Calls; Darkness; Delight; Desire; Exoticism; Feeding; Fire; Flutes; Glimmering; Golden; Guarding; Hiding; Honey; Jasmine; Laughter; Magic; Maidens; Mellow; Milk; Moonbeams; Moonlight; Murmuring; Nature; Night; Oleanders; Palaces; Perfumes; Personification: Snakes; Petals; Rushes; Sensuality; Silver; Slumber; Snake Charmers; Snakes; Squirrels; Wild; Woods; Wooing
First LineWither dost thou hide from the magic of my flute call? (Search)
Year of composition 1906 (Search) Circa
Link to English Text Onlinehttp://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=678334
Larger WorkThe Golden Threshold (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsIndian independence movement (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Score Source https://urresearch.rochester.edu/institutionalPublicationPublicView.action?institutionalItemVersionId=17149
Voice part suggested by composerSoprano
Range: C4 - C6 (Search)
Original KeyF minor (Search)
Dedicated ToCountess Valda Gleichen (Search)
NotesPart of a "song garland" (Search)
Other instrumentation and voiceVoice, piano, and flute (Search)
ContributorGTM (Search)
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