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On the Seashore of Endless Worlds
Song record
peer reviewed
by Editorial Board member: Gregory Zavracky
Song Title
On the Seashore of Endless Worlds (
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Composer(s):
John Alden Carpenter
Author(s):
Rabindranath Tagore
Author Underrepresented Group
POC (
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Keyword(s) & Features:
Adults
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Ballad
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Beaches
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Boats
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Building
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Casting
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Children
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Dancing
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Danger
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Death
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Diving
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Endless
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Gleaming
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Ignorance
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Impressionism
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Infinite
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Innocence
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Labors
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Leaves
;
Meeting
;
Metaphor: Waves Rocking as a Mother Rocking a Baby
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Mothers
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Motionless
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Nets
;
Not Knowing
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Part of a Song Cycle
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Pebbles
;
Personification: Seas
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Places
;
Playing
;
Restlessness
;
Rocking
;
Sailing
;
Sand
;
Seas
;
Shells
;
Shipwrecks
;
Shores
;
Shouting
;
Sky
;
Surging
;
Swimming
;
Tempests
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Treasures
;
Water
;
Waves
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Weaving
;
World
;
Worries
First Line
On the seashore of endless worlds children meet. (
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Average Duration
5:30 (
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Year of composition
1913 (
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Link to English Text Online
http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=15560
Larger Work
Gitanjali (
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Musical Form
Through-composed (
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Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups
Contextual Modernism (
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Original Language
English (
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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 Level
College (
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Range:
C4 - F#5 (
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Original Key
Ab major (
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Recommended Printed Source
G. Schirmer, HL.50326130 (
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Contributor
JC (
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