If You Should Go
Song Title | If You Should Go (Search) |
Composer(s): | William Grant Still |
Composer Underrepresented Group | African-American; POC; Black (Search) |
Author(s): | Countee Cullen |
Author Underrepresented Group | African-American; POC; LGBTQ+; Black (Search) |
Keyword(s) & Features: | Addressee: Lover; Day; Dreamers; Dreams; End; Ending; Faces; Gentle; Gleam; Knowing; Leaving; Light; Living; Love; Lovers; Metaphor: Lover as Dream; Metaphor: Lover as Light; Night; Passing; Quiet; Separation; Slipping; Traces |
First Line | Love, leave me like the light, (Search) |
Average Duration | 1:15 (Search) |
Year of composition | 1949 (Search) |
Link to English Text Online | https://songofamerica.net/song/if-you-should-go/ |
Larger Work | Songs of Separation (Search) |
Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups | Harlem Renaissance (Search) |
Original Language | English (Search) |
Audio Source | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhCBv90RSgE |
Catalog Designation | No. 4 (Search) |
Voice part suggested by composer | Soprano |
Other instrumentation and voice | piano quintet (Search) |
Contributor | GTM (Search) |