Light

Song TitleLight (Search)
Composer(s):Marion Eugénie Bauer
Composer Underrepresented GroupWoman; 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 LineThe night has a thousand eyes, and the day but one (Search)
Average Duration1:30 (Search)
Year of composition 1908 (Search) Circa
Link to English Text Onlinehttp://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=41030
Musical FormModified strophic (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Score Source https://oregondigital.org/catalog/oregondigital:9s1616164#page/1/mode/1up
Difficulty LevelHS (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerMedium voice
Range: D4 - E5 (Search)
Original KeyC Major (Search)
Dedicated ToErnestine Schumann-Heink (Search)
Premiered ByEva May Campbell (Search)
NotesFirst 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 Citedhttps://oregondigital.org/catalog?; http://www.marionbauer.org/; https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/ (Search)
ContributorGTM , Jennifer Erickson (Search)
Contributor Affiliation Weber State University (Search)
If you have suggestions or corrections for this song, please enter them below and click submit.

Your Email (Optional):