Light, my light

Song TitleLight, my light (Search)
Composer(s):Arthur Shepherd
Author(s):Rabindranath Tagore
Author Underrepresented GroupPOC (Search)
Keyword(s) & Features: Addressee: Light; Addressee: Lover; Banks; Beauty; Butterflies; Chords; Clouds; Connection to Nature; Crests; Dancing; Drowning; Earth; Everywhere; Eyes; Filling; Floods; Flowers; Gems; Gladness; Gold; Hearts; Heaven; Imagery; Impressionism; Jasmine; Joy; Kissing; Laughter; Leaves; Life; Light; Lilies; Love; Metaphor: Light as Sea; Metaphor: Love as Musical Instrument; Metaphor: Wings as Sails; Nature; Opening; Plants; Rivers; Running; Sails; Scattering; Seas; Shattering; Sky; Spreading; Striking; Surging; Sweetening; Waves; Wild; Wind; World
First LineLight, my light, the world-filling light, (Search)
Average Duration4:00 (Search)
Year of composition 1927 (Search) Circa
Link to English Text Onlinehttp://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=15556
Larger WorkTriptych for High Voice and String Quartet (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Score Source https://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ReverseLookup/429007
Audio Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNnewB4dwQI
Catalog DesignationNo. 3 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerHigh voice
Range: E4 - G5 (Search)
Original KeyE minor (Search)
Dedicated ToAdella Prentiss Hughes (Search)
Other instrumentation and voiceVoice and string quartet (Search)
ContributorGTM (Search)
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