| Song Title | Beyond Silence (Cantata for tenor, clarinet, trombone, viola, cello, and piano) - generously provided by African Diaspora Music Project (Search)
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| Composer(s): | T. J. (Thomas Jefferson) Anderson Jr. |
| Composer Underrepresented Group | African-American; POC; Black (Search) |
| Author(s): | Pauline Hanson |
| Author Underrepresented Group | Woman (Search) |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Age; Alone; Altars; Answers; Beats; Beginning; Blood; Bodies; Born; Centuries; Changing; Chronology; Communicating; Compounding; Confusion; Consciousness; Constant; Contrast: Physical vs. Mental; Darkness; Day; Dead; Death; Desires; Dread; Dying; Elements; End; Energy; Ethics; Everywhere; Evil; Flesh; Force; Future; Gathering; Good; Great; Insistent; Knowing; Knowledge; Lies; Life; Listening; Living; Lost; Matter; Moments; Moral; Morality; Night; Not Knowing; Old; Old Age; Oppressed; Oppression; Oppressors; Oracles; Ordering; Ordinary; Others; Passing; Past; Phrases; Pity; Practiced; Present; Psychic; Questions; Quiet; Reality; Remembering; Remorse; Rest; Rises; Rising; Silence; Slow; Somatic; Sound; Speaking; Speechless; Stopping; Strange; Sudden; Terror; Thinking; Thought; Time; Today; Tomorrow; Torment; Trying; Variables; Waiting; Wanting; Ways; Whiskey; Wisdom; Wishes; Wonder; Words; Years; Yesterday; Young; Youth |
| First Line | I think it. (Search) |
| Average Duration | 15:00 (Search) |
| Year of composition |
1973 (Search) |
| Original Language | English (Search) |
| Score Source |
https://tinyurl.com/andersonbeyondsilence
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| Audio Source |
http://www.tjandersonmusic.com/audio/mp3/BEYOND_SILENCE.mp3
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| Voice part suggested by composer | Tenor |
| Range: | C3 - C#5 (Search) |
| Dedicated To | "To the young, our perpetual sacrifice" (Search) |
| Premiered By | Scott MacAllister (Search) |
| Notes | Premiered by Scott MacAllister, tenor and Boston Musica Viva, conducted by Richard Pittman, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, MA, 1973 (Search) |
| Recommended Printed Source | N.Y.: American Composers' Fascimile Edition, Inc. (Search) |
| Other instrumentation and voice | Tenor, clarinet, trombone, viola, cello, and piano (Search) |
| Sources Cited | African Diaspora Music Project, created by Dr. Louise Toppin (Search) |
| Contributor | Dr. Louise Toppin; GTM (Search)
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