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A dream of spring
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peer reviewed
by Editorial Board member: Jacquelyn Matava
Song Title
A dream of spring (
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Composer(s):
Sir Granville Bantock
Author(s):
L. (Launcelot) Cranmer-Byng (after Cen Shen (AKA Ts'en Shen, Ts'en Ts'an, or Cen Jiazhou))
Author Underrepresented Group
Asian; POC (
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Keyword(s) & Features:
Breath
;
Chambers
;
Chiang (Yangtze River)
;
Chiang Nan (Jiangnan)
;
Chinese
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Creeping
;
Distance
;
Dreams
;
Faces
;
Gloom
;
Heads
;
Hearts
;
Hundreds
;
Invitations
;
Lingering
;
Miles
;
Moments
;
Moonlit
;
Night
;
Personification: Spring's Breath
;
Pillows
;
Seas
;
Souls
;
Spaces
;
Spring
;
Touching
;
Wandering
;
Whispering
;
Winging
First Line
Last night within my chamber's gloom (
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Year of composition
1919 (
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Link to English Text Online
https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=48635
Larger Work
Five Songs from the Chinese Poets (
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Musical Form
Through-composed (
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Original Language
English (
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Score Source
https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/b/b3/IMSLP48520-SIBLEY1802.8661.e7a6-39087011968387score.pdf
Audio Source
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGPnSr4yvO8
Catalog Designation
Op. 2, no. 2 (
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Range:
E4 - G5 (
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Original Key
A minor (
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Dedicated To
Eleanor M. V. Finegan (
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Notes
From the Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty, Cen Shen (Ts'en Shen, Ts'en Ts'an, Cen Jiazhou) (
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