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Light, my light
Song record
peer reviewed
by Editorial Board member: Gregory Zavracky
Song Title
Light, my light (
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Composer(s):
John Alden Carpenter
Author(s):
Rabindranath Tagore
Author Underrepresented Group
POC (
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Keyword(s) & Features:
Addressee: Light
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Addressee: Lover
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Banks
;
Beauty
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Butterflies
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Chords
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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
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Metaphor: Love as Musical Instrument
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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 Line
Light, my light, the world-filling light (
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Average Duration
2:15 (
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Year of composition
1913 (
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Link to English Text Online
http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=15556
Larger Work
Gitanjali (
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Musical Form
Ternary (
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Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups
Contextual Modernism (
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Original Language
English (
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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 Level
College (
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Range:
C4 - G5 (
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Original Key
C Major (
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Recommended Printed Source
G. Schirmer, HL.50326130 (
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Contributor
JC (
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