The Return from Town - generously provided by African Diaspora Music Project

Song TitleThe Return from Town - generously provided by African Diaspora Music Project (Search)
Composer(s):H. Leslie Adams
Composer Underrepresented GroupAfrican-American; POC; Black (Search)
Author(s):Edna St. Vincent Millay
Author Underrepresented GroupWoman (Search)
Keyword(s) & Features: Appearances; Attractiveness; Bathing; Beauty; Boys; Bridges; Dipping; Dusty; Faithfulness; Feet; Following; Gates; Girls; Hills; Hollows; Journeys; Lads; Maids; Meeting; Men; Passing; Pretty; Return; Sad; Sitting; Standing; Streams; Towns; Turning; Up-tempo; Walking; Wives; Youths
First LineAs I sat down by Saddle Stream (Search)
Average Duration2:00 (Search)
Year of composition 1960 (Search) Circa
Link to English Text Onlinehttps://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=11431
Larger WorkFive Millay Songs (Search)
Musical FormModified strophic (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsFeminism (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Audio Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzWrFT9aHO4
Catalog DesignationNo. 4 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerMedium/High voice
Range: C4 - G5 (Search)
Original KeyF Major (Search)
Recommended Printed SourceCreative Arts Inc. (Search)
Sources CitedAfrican Diaspora Music Project, created by Dr. Louise Toppin (Search)
ContributorDr. Louise Toppin; GTM (Search)
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