Sence You Went Away - generously provided by African Diaspora Music Project
| Song Title | Sence You Went Away - generously provided by African Diaspora Music Project (Search) |
| Composer(s): | H. Leslie Adams |
| Composer Underrepresented Group | African-American; POC; Black (Search) |
| Author(s): | James Weldon Johnson |
| Author Underrepresented Group | African-American; POC; Black (Search) |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Absent Love; Birds; Blue; Bright; Day; Despair; Dialect; Directionless; Dry; Eyes; Forgetting; Heartbreak; Hopelessness; Light; Long; Losing; Loss; Lost; Lost Love; Missing; Right; Shining; Sighing; Sky; Songs; Sorrow; Stars; Sun; Tears; Throats; Without Love; Wrong |
| First Line | Seems like to me the stars don't shine so bright. (Search) |
| Average Duration | 5:00 (Search) |
| Year of composition | 1961 (Search) Circa |
| Link to English Text Online | https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46449/sence-you-went-away |
| Larger Work | Nightsongs (Search) |
| Musical Form | Ternary (Search) |
| Original Language | English (Search) |
| Audio Source | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV-xMZ2v2ZE |
| Catalog Designation | No. 5 (Search) |
| Voice part suggested by composer | High voice |
| Range: | E4 - Gb5 (Search) |
| Original Key | G Major (Search) |
| Notes | Also available in low (Eb Major) and medium keys (Search) |
| Sources Cited | African Diaspora Music Project, created by Dr. Louise Toppin (Search) |
| Contributor | Dr. Louise Toppin; GTM (Search) |