Midas, Poor Midas - generously provided by African Diaspora Music Project

Song Title Midas, Poor Midas - generously provided by African Diaspora Music Project (Search)
Composer(s):H. Leslie Adams
Composer Underrepresented GroupAfrican-American; POC; Black (Search)
Author(s):Joette McDonald
Author Underrepresented GroupWoman (Search)
Keyword(s) & Features: Bathing; Beautiful; Bright; Cellars; Clanking; Clatter; Clinking; Coins; Counting; Drowning; Enough; Equaling; Filling; Fingers; Friends; Fun; Gold; Greed; Ground; Heaping; Increasing; Jingling; Kings; Listening; Metallic; Metaphor: Gold as Sun; Midas; Money; More; Music; Obsession; Onomatopoeia; Pieces; Piles; Poor; Rich; Ringing; Rolling; Running; Sounds; Stores; Sun; Treasure; True; Up-tempo; Wanting; Wealth; World
First LineO listen my friend to the clank and clink! (Search)
Year of composition 1993 (Search) Circa
Larger WorkDaybirth: Songs on Texts of J. McDonald (Search)
Musical FormTernary (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Catalog DesignationNo. 11 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerHigh voice
Range: Eb4 - A5 (Search)
Original KeyDb Major (Search)
NotesOptional higher notes up to Db6 (Search)
Recommended Printed SourceAmerican Composers Alliance (Search)
Sources CitedAfrican Diaspora Music Project, created by Dr. Louise Toppin (Search)
ContributorDr. Louise Toppin; GTM (Search)
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