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Song Title | Light (Search) |
Composer(s): | Marion Eugénie Bauer |
Composer Underrepresented Group | Woman; Jewish (Search) |
Author(s): | Francis William Bourdillon |
Keyword(s) & Features: | Bright; Day; Dying; Eyes; Hearts; Hope Through Love; Life; Light; Lost Love; Love; Metaphor: Love as Day; Metaphor: Love as Light; Metaphor: Love as Sun; Mind; Night; One; Sun; Thousand; World |
First Line | The night has a thousand eyes, and the day but one (Search) |
Average Duration | 1:30 (Search) |
Year of composition | 1908 (Search) Circa |
Link to English Text Online | http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=41030 |
Musical Form | Modified strophic (Search) |
Original Language | English (Search) |
Score Source | https://oregondigital.org/catalog/oregondigital:9s1616164#page/1/mode/1up |
Difficulty Level | HS (Search) |
Voice part suggested by composer | Medium voice |
Range: | D4 - E5 (Search) |
Original Key | C Major (Search) |
Dedicated To | Ernestine Schumann-Heink (Search) |
Premiered By | Eva May Campbell (Search) |
Notes | First performance 1908 by Eva May Campbell, a student of Mrs. Henry Holden Huss. Published by the John Church Company 1910, but no longer in print. (Search) |
Sources Cited | https://oregondigital.org/catalog?; http://www.marionbauer.org/; https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/ (Search) |
Contributor | GTM , Jennifer Erickson (Search) |
Contributor Affiliation | Weber State University (Search) |