Waikiki
Song Title | Waikiki (Search) |
Composer(s): | Charles T. Griffes |
Composer Underrepresented Group | LGBTQ+ (Search) |
Author(s): | Rupert Brooke |
Keyword(s) & Features: | Betrayal; Couples; Evil; Foolish; Forgetting; Hawaii; Hawaiian; History; Legend; Love; Memory; Metaphor: Perfume as Breath; Metaphor: Waves as Hair; Music; Night; Oceans; Pain; Past; Perfumes; Remembering; Seas; Stars; Story; Summer; Tales; Ukuleles; Waikiki; Waves |
First Line | Warm perfumes like a breath from vine and tree (Search) |
Average Duration | 3:45 (Search) |
Year of composition | 1916 (Search) |
Link to English Text Online | https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=21203 |
Larger Work | Three poems: for voice and piano, op. 9 (Search) |
Musical Form | Ternary (Search) |
Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups | Bloomsbury Group; Georgian Poets (Search) |
Original Language | English (Search) |
Score Source | https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c062164575&view=1up&seq=4 |
Audio Source | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ekxt_A_Hc40 |
Catalog Designation | Op. 9 no. 2 (Search) |
Range: | D#4 - G#5 (Search) |
Original Key | A Major (Search) |