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Block Songs - generously provided by African Diaspora Music Project

Song Title	Block Songs - generously provided by African Diaspora Music Project (Search)
Composer(s):	T. J. (Thomas Jefferson) Anderson Jr.
Composer Underrepresented Group	African-American; POC; Black (Search)
Author(s):	Pearl Cleage Lomax
Author Underrepresented Group	African-American; Woman; POC; Black (Search)
Keyword(s) & Features:	Addressee: Mother; Air; Amused; Arms; Babies; Beds; Biscuits; Black; Blooming; Bodies; Brooms; Broomsticks; Brown; Caresses; Childhood; Children; Closeness; Clouds; Confessions; Cool; Crowdedness; Dogs; Dry; Dust; Empty; Faces; Faint; Filth; Flowers; Fluttering; Freedom; Future; Gentle; Gloves; Golden; Hands; Hats; Heads; Humans; Indulgent; Intimacy; Lips; Loving; Lying; Metaphor: Arms as Broomsticks; Metaphor: Broom as Scepter; Metaphor: Child as Flower; Mingling; Morning; Motherhood; Mothers; Naked; Necks; Not Knowing; Nudity; Parted; Pigs; Porches; Pushes; Pushing; Race; Royalty; Rubbing; Scepters; Screaming; Shit; Shoulders; Singeing; Sitting; Skipping; Slow; Smiles; Smiling; Soggy; Speaking; Squalor; Steady; Stinking; Stretching; Strokes; Sun; Sweat; Sweeping; Tables; Thick; Time; Tiny; Tired; True; Ugly; Urine; Wearing; Weeping; Women
First Line	Confession (Search)
Average Duration	12:00 (Search)
Year of composition	1972 (Search)
Original Language	English (Search)
Score Source	https://www.worldcat.org/title/block-songs-for-solo-voice-and-childrens-toys/oclc/38063332&referer=brief_results
Audio Source	http://www.tjandersonmusic.com/audio/mp3/BLOCK_SONGS.mp3
Voice part suggested by composer	Soprano
Range:	Bb3 - A5 (Search)
Dedicated To	T.J. (III), Janet, and Anita Anderson (Search)
Premiered By	Elsa Charlston (Search)
Notes	Premiered by Else Charlston, soprano and Boston Musica Viva, Boston, 1976. Dedicated to the composer's children (Search)
Recommended Printed Source	N.Y.: American Composers' Edition, Inc. (Search)
Other instrumentation and voice	Soprano, children's toys (commercial musical busy box and jack-in-the-box), chromatic pitch pipe (Search)
Sources Cited	African Diaspora Music Project, created by Dr. Louise Toppin (Search)
Contributor	Dr. Louise Toppin; GTM (Search)
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