Les silhouettes

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Song TitleLes silhouettes (Search)
Composer(s):John Alden Carpenter
Author(s):Oscar Wilde
Author Underrepresented GroupLGBTQ+ (Search)
Keyword(s) & Features: Bays; Birds; Boats; Boys; Danger; Dead; Dull; Dusky; Foreshadowing; Grass; Impressionism; Laughing; Moon; Ominous; Out of Tune; Reapers; Sailors; Sand; Seas; Silhouettes; Sky; Sorrow; Stormy; Symbols; Tempestuous; Wind; Withered
First LineThe sea is fleck'd with bars of gray (Search)
Average Duration2:30 (Search)
Year of composition 1913 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttp://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=17457
Larger WorkFour Songs for a Medium voice (Search)
Musical FormTernary (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsAestheticism; Decadence (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Score Source https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/7/75/IMSLP110100-SIBLEY1802.15245.1e97-39087012000206silhouettes.pdf
Audio Source https://open.spotify.com/track/2U20gqFD9tlIocQNPggdvv?si=0zBe6OJQRzuof07EcDCnCA
Difficulty LevelCollege (Search)
Catalog DesignationFour Songs for a Medium voice, no. 1 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerMedium voice
Range: C4 - G5 (Search)
Original KeyEb Major (Search)
Sources Citedhttps://imslp.org/wiki/4_Songs_(Carpenter%2C_John_Alden) http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=17457 (Search)
ContributorEM , Ellen Moffatt (Search)
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