From a Hotel Room - generously provided by African Diaspora Music Project
| Song Title | From a Hotel Room - generously provided by African Diaspora Music Project (Search) |
| Composer(s): | H. Leslie Adams |
| Composer Underrepresented Group | African-American; POC; Black (Search) |
| Author(s): | Joette McDonald |
| Author Underrepresented Group | Woman (Search) |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Bays; Beauty; Beauty of Life; Brevity of Life; Buying; Carpe Diem; Choosing; Claiming; Contentment; Day; Delight; Enjoying; Finiteness; Frames; Gratitude; Holding; Hotels; Impermanence; Joy; Lamenting; Life; Lights; Living; Mine; Musing; Now; Overlooking; Ownership; Picking; Pleasure; Present; Purchasing; Pure; Rooms; Seeing; Shining; Time; Tonight; Windows; Wonder |
| First Line | My window overlooks the bay. (Search) |
| Year of composition | 1994 (Search) Circa |
| Larger Work | Daybirth: Songs on Texts of J. McDonald (Search) |
| Musical Form | Modified ternary (Search) |
| Original Language | English (Search) |
| Catalog Designation | No. 8 (Search) |
| Voice part suggested by composer | Low voice |
| Range: | Ab3 - D#5 (Search) |
| Notes | Also available in high arrangement, largely as the same vocal line in the same key transposed up one octave, with ossias that limit the top range to A5 (Search) |
| Recommended Printed Source | American Composers Alliance (Search) |
| Sources Cited | African Diaspora Music Project, created by Dr. Louise Toppin (Search) |
| Contributor | Dr. Louise Toppin; GTM (Search) |