If You Should Go

Song TitleIf You Should Go (Search)
Composer(s):William Grant Still
Composer Underrepresented GroupAfrican-American; POC; Black (Search)
Author(s):Countee Cullen
Author Underrepresented GroupAfrican-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 LineLove, leave me like the light, (Search)
Average Duration1:15 (Search)
Year of composition 1949 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttps://songofamerica.net/song/if-you-should-go/
Larger WorkSongs of Separation (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsHarlem Renaissance (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Audio Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhCBv90RSgE
Catalog DesignationNo. 4 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerSoprano
Other instrumentation and voicepiano quintet (Search)
ContributorGTM (Search)
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