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The Celestial Weaver
Song record
peer reviewed
by Editorial Board member: Jacquelyn Matava
Song Title
The Celestial Weaver (
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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:
Admiration
;
Arching
;
Autumn
;
Beauty
;
Birds
;
Breasts
;
Breathing
;
Celestial
;
Centuries
;
Charms
;
Creator
;
Crescent Moon
;
Descriptions
;
Eternal
;
Eyebrows
;
Faces
;
Fear
;
Feet
;
Fluttering
;
Gazing
;
Green
;
Immovable
;
Innumerable
;
Knocking
;
Lake Kouenming
;
Lilies
;
Locks
;
Looms
;
Loveliness
;
Marble
;
Mirrors
;
Moss
;
Mountain tops
;
Nature
;
Pearly
;
Reflections
;
Rivers
;
Shining
;
Shoulders
;
Simile
;
Slipping
;
Smiles
;
Snow
;
Standing
;
Stars
;
Statues
;
Still
;
Stone
;
Thousand
;
Toiling
;
Water
;
Waves
;
Weavers
;
Wondering
;
Years
First Line
A thing of stone beside Lake Kouenming (
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Link to English Text Online
https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=48631
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/3/38/IMSLP236270-SIBLEY1802.21990.0e6a-39087012066249score.pdf
Catalog Designation
Five Songs from the Chinese Poets, no. 4 (
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Range:
C4 - F#5 (
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Original Key
A minor (
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Dedicated To
Alvin Langdon Coburn (
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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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