On the Seashore of Endless Worlds

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Song TitleOn the Seashore of Endless Worlds (Search)
Composer(s):John Alden Carpenter
Author(s):Rabindranath Tagore
Author Underrepresented GroupPOC (Search)
Keyword(s) & Features: Adults; Ballad; Beaches; Boats; Building; Casting; Children; Dancing; Danger; Death; Diving; Endless; Gleaming; Ignorance; Impressionism; Infinite; Innocence; Labors; Leaves; Meeting; Metaphor: Waves Rocking as a Mother Rocking a Baby; Mothers; Motionless; Nets; Not Knowing; Part of a Song Cycle; Pebbles; Personification: Seas; Places; Playing; Restlessness; Rocking; Sailing; Sand; Seas; Shells; Shipwrecks; Shores; Shouting; Sky; Surging; Swimming; Tempests; Treasures; Water; Waves; Weaving; World; Worries
First LineOn the seashore of endless worlds children meet. (Search)
Average Duration5:30 (Search)
Year of composition 1913 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttp://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=15560
Larger WorkGitanjali (Search)
Musical FormThrough-composed (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsContextual Modernism (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Score Source https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/0/05/IMSLP250098-SIBLEY1802.17299.f2bf-39087012077733score.pdf
Audio Source https://open.spotify.com/track/7fSGgl1YOYVd8WDdTnRaOt?si=5YVue9TwRRGgLKSyb_fjiQ
Difficulty LevelCollege (Search)
Range: C4 - F#5 (Search)
Original KeyAb major (Search)
Recommended Printed SourceG. Schirmer, HL.50326130 (Search)
ContributorJC (Search)
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