Idolatry
Song Title | Idolatry (Search) |
Composer(s): | William Grant Still |
Composer Underrepresented Group | African-American; POC; Black (Search) |
Author(s): | Arna Wendell Bontemps |
Author Underrepresented Group | African-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 Line | You have been good to me, I give you this: (Search) |
Average Duration | 2:00 (Search) |
Year of composition | 1949 (Search) |
Link to English Text Online | https://songofamerica.net/song/idolatry/ |
Larger Work | Songs of Separation (Search) |
Original Language | English (Search) |
Audio Source | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbmKvh6XIdI |
Catalog Designation | No. 1 (Search) |
Voice part suggested by composer | Soprano |
Range: | C#3 - F#4 (Search) |
Original Key | D minor (Search) |
Other instrumentation and voice | piano quintet (Search) |
Contributor | GTM , Adriel Baralt Jimenez (Search) |
Contributor Affiliation | Georgia Southern University (Search) |