Lament
| Song Title | Lament (Search) |
| Composer(s): | Jeff Blumenkrantz |
| Composer Underrepresented Group | LGBTQ+; Jewish (Search) |
| Author(s): | Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| Author Underrepresented Group | Woman (Search) |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Addressee: Child; Anne; Banks; Breakfast; Children; Clothing; Coats; Comfort; Dan; Dead; Death; Dying; Families; Fathers; Forgetting; Forgotten; Grief; Heartache; Jackets; Keys; Lament; Life; Listening; Little; Loss; Material Things; Medicine; Men; Missing; Mourning; Moving On; Noises; Old; Pain; Pants; Pennies; Pockets; Pretty; Saving; Speaker: Mother; Things; Tobacco; Trousers; Widows; Withdrawing |
| First Line | Listen, children: Your father is dead. (Search) |
| Average Duration | 2:00 (Search) |
| Year of composition | 2002 (Search) |
| Link to English Text Online | https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44724/lament-56d223eed5de0 |
| Musical Form | Through-composed (Search) |
| Original Language | English (Search) |
| Score Source | https://jeffblumenkrantz.com/product/lament-pdf/ |
| Audio Source | https://youtu.be/_nKOTcmETDs |
| Difficulty Level | College (Search) |
| Voice part suggested by composer | Mezzo-soprano |
| Range: | D3 - C5 (Search) |
| Original Key | G Major (Search) |
| Recommended Printed Source | Blumenkrantz, The Jeff Blumenkrantz Songbook Volume 1, ISBN: 978-0976662501 (Search) |
| Contributor | GTM , Michael Womack (Search) |
| Contributor Affiliation | Southern Arkansas University (Search) |