| Song Title | A Fixed Idea (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: | Aching; Addressee: Thoughts; Binding; Constant; Crushed; Delight; Drooping; Dull; Finding; Fixating; Fixed; Folding; Freedom; Growing; Habits; Hearts; Heavy; Ideas; Joy; Kind; Life; Lifting; Loving; Lurking; Mercy; Metaphor: Heart as Nest; Mind; Nests; Not Knowing; Pain; Peace; Quests; Recurring; Refined; Remembering; Remembrance; Rest; Right; Ruminating; Sonnet; Struggling; Teaching; Thinking; Thoughts; Torture; Unceasing; Weary; Welcome; Wings |
| First Line | What torture lurks within a single thought (Search) |
| Year of composition |
2013 (Search) |
| Link to English Text Online | https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42980/a-fixed-idea |
| 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=758
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| Catalog Designation | No. 5 (Search) |
| Voice part suggested by composer | Soprano |
| 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 (Search)
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