Ain't Cut Drylongso - generously provided by African Diaspora Music Project

Song TitleAin't Cut Drylongso - generously provided by African Diaspora Music Project (Search)
Composer(s):T. J. (Thomas Jefferson) Anderson Jr.
Composer Underrepresented GroupAfrican-American; POC; Black (Search)
Author(s):Harryette Mullen
Author Underrepresented GroupAfrican-American; Woman; POC; Black (Search)
Keyword(s) & Features: Amused; Blues; Chevrolet; Chevy; Children; Colors; Cutting; Daughters; Dividing; Down; Dry; Emblems; Femininity; Godzilla; Guitars; Heavy; Hues; Humming; Jazz; Lambs; Love; Low; Mirrors; Models; Monsters; Motherhood; Mothers; Motion; Multiplying; Music; Muted; Old; Paper; Past; Picking; Real; Religion; Songs; Sound; Technicolor; Time; Vaginas; Violet; Virgin; Women; Writing; Yore
First Lineain't cut drylongso (Search)
Year of composition 1994 (Search) Circa
Link to English Text Onlinehttps://www.jstor.org/stable/3298965
Larger Work7 Cabaret Songs (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Audio Source (Search)
Catalog DesignationNo. 2 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerMedium voice
Range: A3 - E5 (Search)
Dedicated ToWilliam Grant Still (Search)
Premiered ByNnenna Freelon (Search)
Commissioned ByMallarme Chamber Players for Nnenna Freelon with assistance by the North Carolina Arts Council (Search)
NotesPremiered September 16, 1995; Nnenna Freelon and the Mallarme Chamber Players; Wright State University, Dayton, OH (Search)
Recommended Printed SourceN.Y.: American Composers' Edition, Inc. (Search)
Other instrumentation and voiceJazz vocalist, flute, viola, cello, and piano (Search)
Sources CitedAfrican Diaspora Music Project, created by Dr. Louise Toppin (Search)
ContributorDr. Louise Toppin; GTM (Search)
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