Waikiki

Song TitleWaikiki (Search)
Composer(s):Charles T. Griffes
Composer Underrepresented GroupLGBTQ+ (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 LineWarm perfumes like a breath from vine and tree (Search)
Average Duration3:45 (Search)
Year of composition 1916 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttps://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=21203
Larger WorkThree poems: for voice and piano, op. 9 (Search)
Musical FormTernary (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsBloomsbury Group; Georgian Poets (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (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 DesignationOp. 9 no. 2 (Search)
Range: D#4 - G#5 (Search)
Original KeyA Major (Search)
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