| Song Title | Absence (Search)
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| Composer(s): | Jennifer Higdon |
| Composer Underrepresented Group | Woman; LGBTQ+ (Search) |
| Author(s): | Amy Lowell |
| Author Underrepresented Group | Woman; LGBTQ+ (Search) |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Absence; Absent Love; Addressee: Lover; Bittersweet; Blood; Blossoms; Brimming; Chilling; Cold; Connections; Cups; Drinking; Dry; Ecstasy; Emptiness; Empty; Filling; Heartbreak; Hearts; Loneliness; Lost; Love; Lovers; Metaphor: Heart as Cup; Moon; Moonlight; Mouths; Night; Passion; Radiance; Red; Rooms; Scents; Solitude; Souls; Sparkling; Still; Strange; Swaying; Tapping; Tastes; Tasting; Trembling; Void; Walls; White; Wind; Windows; Wisteria |
| First Line | My cup is empty tonight (Search) |
| Year of composition |
2013 (Search) |
| Link to English Text Online | https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/absence-64/ |
| Larger Work | Love Sweet (Search) |
| Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups | Imagism (Search) |
| Original Language | English (Search) |
| Audio Source |
https://youtu.be/qDsibWuwVVI?t=444
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| Catalog Designation | No. 3 (Search) |
| Voice part suggested by composer | Soprano |
| Range: | A#3 - Ab5 (Search) |
| Premiered By | Yungee Rhie (Search) |
| Commissioned By | SongFest (Search) |
| Notes | Premiered June 15, 2014, SongFest 2014, Colburn School, Los Angeles; Yungee Rhie, soprano; Itamar Zorman, violin, cello; Liza Stepanova, piano (Search) |
| Other instrumentation and voice | violin, cello, and piano (Search) |
| Contributor | GTM , Meghann Ashey (Search)
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| Contributor Affiliation | Georgia Southern University (Search) |
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