Idolatry

Song TitleIdolatry (Search)
Composer(s):William Grant Still
Composer Underrepresented GroupAfrican-American; POC; Black (Search)
Author(s):Arna Wendell Bontemps
Author Underrepresented GroupAfrican-American; POC; Black (Search)
Keyword(s) & Features: Absent Love; Addressee: Lover; Air; Arms; Bells; Breaking; Building; Chapels; Cries; Dedication; Dying; Empty; Expression of Love; Faces; Giving; Good; Hammers; Hard; Journeying; Kisses; Kneeling; Lips; Long; Lost Love; Love; Lovers; Marble; Old; Past; Past Love; Places; Sensuality; Separation; Signs; Sounds; Spirituality; Stone; Sustaining; Tolling; Unrequited Love; Yearning
First LineYou have been good to me, I give you this: (Search)
Average Duration2:00 (Search)
Year of composition 1949 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttps://songofamerica.net/song/idolatry/
Larger WorkSongs of Separation (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Audio Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbmKvh6XIdI
Catalog DesignationNo. 1 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerSoprano
Range: C#3 - F#4 (Search)
Original KeyD minor (Search)
Other instrumentation and voicepiano quintet (Search)
ContributorGTM , Adriel Baralt Jimenez (Search)
Contributor Affiliation Georgia Southern University (Search)
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