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 Group | African-American; POC; Black (Search) |
Author(s): | Joette McDonald |
Author Underrepresented Group | Woman (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 Line | O listen my friend to the clank and clink! (Search) |
Year of composition | 1993 (Search) Circa |
Larger Work | Daybirth: Songs on Texts of J. McDonald (Search) |
Musical Form | Ternary (Search) |
Original Language | English (Search) |
Catalog Designation | No. 11 (Search) |
Voice part suggested by composer | High voice |
Range: | Eb4 - A5 (Search) |
Original Key | Db Major (Search) |
Notes | Optional higher notes up to Db6 (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) |