Adversity

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Song TitleAdversity (Search)
Composer(s):George Whitefield Chadwick
Author(s):Arthur Macy
Keyword(s) & Features: Adversity; Beauty; Bliss; Breasts; Dreaming; Dreams; Drooping; Exiles; Eyelids; Eyes; Faces; Hidden; Imagining; Kisses; Lace; Lips; Loneliness; Separation; Smiling; Snowy; Soft; Sweet; Without Love
First LineA soft eye’s drooping lid (Search)
Average Duration1:00 (Search)
Year of composition 1902 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttps://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=10655
Larger WorkSix Songs, F. 256 (Search)
Musical FormThrough-composed (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Score Source https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/7/7b/IMSLP66179-SIBLEY1802.8990.ff15-39087012078459score.pdf
Audio Source https://open.spotify.com/track/5Uafp1IwXn85Jm3EJUm69i?si=jtC-TntfTBm3jJav3fbWkg
Difficulty LevelHS (Search)
Catalog DesignationF. 256, No. 3 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerMezzo-soprano or Baritone
Range: Db4 - F5 (Search)
Original KeyF Major (Search)
Recommended Printed SourceAmerican Art Songs of the Turn is the Century; ISBN 0-486-26749-0 (Search)
ContributorGTM , Mishelle Cipriani (Search)
Contributor Affiliation University of Utah (Search)
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