A Black Pierrot

Song TitleA Black Pierrot (Search)
Composer(s):William Grant Still
Composer Underrepresented GroupAfrican-American; POC; Black (Search)
Author(s):Langston Hughes
Author Underrepresented GroupAfrican-American; POC; Black (Search)
Keyword(s) & Features: Air; Balloons; Black; Blackness; Bleeding; Blood; Brown; Commedia dell'Arte; Creeping; Dawn; Dripping; Gay; Hearts; Hills; Hope; Hopelessness; Inequality; Loss; Love; Lovers; Loving; Metaphor: Soul as Balloon; Morning; Night; Perseverance; Pierrot; Prejudice; Race; Racism; Red; Rejection; Sadness; Seeking; Shrunken; Souls; Struggles; Unrequited Love; Weeping
First LineI am a black pierrot: She did not love me, (Search)
Average Duration2:30 (Search)
Year of composition 1949 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttps://songofamerica.net/song/black-pierrot/
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=2qRErG9wH9g
Catalog DesignationNo. 5 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerSoprano
Range: C3 - Eb4 (Search)
Original KeyEb minor (Search)
Other instrumentation and voicepiano quintet (Search)
ContributorGTM , Adriel Baralt Jimenez (Search)
Contributor Affiliation Georgia Southern University (Search)
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