Light, my light

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Song TitleLight, my light (Search)
Composer(s):John Alden Carpenter
Author(s):Rabindranath Tagore
Author Underrepresented GroupPOC (Search)
Keyword(s) & Features: Addressee: Light; Addressee: Lover; Banks; Beauty; Butterflies; Chords; Clouds; Connection to Nature; Crests; Dancing; Drowning; Earth; Eyes; Filling; Floods; Flowers; Gems; Gladness; Gold; Hearts; Heaven; Imagery; Impressionism; Jasmine; Joy; Kissing; Laughter; Leaves; Life; Light; Lilies; Love; Metaphor: Light as Sea; Metaphor: Love as Musical Instrument; Metaphor: Wings as Sails; Nature; Opening; Part of a Song Cycle; Plants; Rivers; Running; Sails; Scattering; Seas; Shattering; Sky; Spreading; Striking; Surging; Sweetening; Waves; Wild; Wind; World
First LineLight, my light, the world-filling light (Search)
Average Duration2:15 (Search)
Year of composition 1913 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttp://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=15556
Larger WorkGitanjali (Search)
Musical FormTernary (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsContextual Modernism (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Score Source https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/0/05/IMSLP250098-SIBLEY1802.17299.f2bf-39087012077733score.pdf
Audio Source https://open.spotify.com/track/4swQ5bLU6eBI4zJS4HMDD5?si=IZYxoYNFTkqMPvLK3eWknQ
Difficulty LevelCollege (Search)
Range: C4 - G5 (Search)
Original KeyC Major (Search)
Recommended Printed SourceG. Schirmer, HL.50326130 (Search)
ContributorJC (Search)
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