Worth While - generously provided by African Diaspora Music Project
| Song Title | Worth While - generously provided by African Diaspora Music Project (Search) |
| Composer(s): | Henry Thacker Burleigh |
| Composer Underrepresented Group | African-American; POC; Black (Search) |
| Author(s): | Adela Florence Nicolson (as Laurence Hope) |
| Author Underrepresented Group | Woman (Search) |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Adoring; Answers; Brains; Desolate; Hearts; Lost Love; Love; Loving; Meeting; Metaphor: Soul as Ship; Metaphor: Soul as Shipwreck; Orientalism; Pain; Past Love; Paying; Personification: Heart; Personification: Mind; Personification: Senses; Prices; Questioning; Regret; Remembering; Senses; Shipwrecks; Souls |
| First Line | I asked of my desolate, shipwrecked soul (Search) |
| Average Duration | 2:45 (Search) |
| Year of composition | 1915 (Search) |
| Link to English Text Online | https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=108488 |
| Larger Work | Five Songs of Laurence Hope (Search) |
| Musical Form | Through-composed (Search) |
| Original Language | English (Search) |
| Score Source | https://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ReverseLookup/238246 |
| Audio Source | https://open.spotify.com/track/23IzQEy15oUPiDOYZ6rjm0 |
| Difficulty Level | Masters/Young Artist (Search) |
| Catalog Designation | no. 1 (Search) |
| Range: | D4 - A5 (Search) |
| Original Key | B Minor (Search) |
| Premiered By | John McCormack, tenor, and Edwin Schneider, piano (Search) |
| Notes | Adela Florence Nicolson (née Cory) wrote under the pseudonym Laurence Hope. She lived her adult life in India, and her poems often show Indian or other Eastern influence. (Search) |
| Recommended Printed Source | https://www.worldcat.org/title/five-songs-of-laurence-hope/oclc/682120505&referer=brief_results (Search) |
| Orchestra and voice? | No (Search) |
| Sources Cited | African Diaspora Music Project, created by Dr. Louise Toppin (Search) |
| Contributor | Dr. Louise Toppin; GTM , Gregory Zavracky (Search) |
| Contributor Affiliation | University of Connecticut, Brown University (Search) |