A Black Pierrot
Song Title | A Black Pierrot (Search) |
Composer(s): | William Grant Still |
Composer Underrepresented Group | African-American; POC; Black (Search) |
Author(s): | Langston Hughes |
Author Underrepresented Group | African-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 Line | I am a black pierrot: She did not love me, (Search) |
Average Duration | 2:30 (Search) |
Year of composition | 1949 (Search) |
Link to English Text Online | https://songofamerica.net/song/black-pierrot/ |
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=2qRErG9wH9g |
Catalog Designation | No. 5 (Search) |
Voice part suggested by composer | Soprano |
Range: | C3 - Eb4 (Search) |
Original Key | Eb minor (Search) |
Other instrumentation and voice | piano quintet (Search) |
Contributor | GTM , Adriel Baralt Jimenez (Search) |
Contributor Affiliation | Georgia Southern University (Search) |