Joy

Song TitleJoy (Search)
Composer(s):Charles Wakefield Cadman
Author(s):Elsie Long
Author Underrepresented GroupWoman (Search)
Keyword(s) & Features: Addressee: Lover; Air; Beauty; Beholding; Bliss; Blue; Breasts; Bright; Dawn; Expression of Love; Fair; Floating; Flowing; Free; Gay; Glad; Gold; Happiness; Hearts; Joy; Knowing; Life; Lifting; Love; Lovers; Loving; Metaphor: Heart as Gold; Metaphor: Lover as Mirth; Metaphor: Lover as Ship; Mirth; Nature; Night; Perfumes; Ports; Power of Love; Precious; Rapture; Rest; Rich; Seas; Ships; Starry; Sun; Tides; Waking
First LineI never saw the sun so bright (Search)
Year of composition 1929 (Search) Circa
Link to English Text Onlinehttps://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=839698
Musical FormModified strophic (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerHigh voice
Range: E4 - A5 (Search)
Original KeyD Major (Search)
Dedicated ToSerge Temoff (Search)
NotesCadman's archive housed at Penn State. Also available in medium key (Bb Major). (Search)
ContributorGTM (Search)
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