Gethsemane - generously provided by African Diaspora Music Project
Song Title | Gethsemane - generously provided by African Diaspora Music Project (Search) |
Composer(s): | David Baker |
Composer Underrepresented Group | African-American; POC; Black (Search) |
Author(s): | Arna Wendell Bontemps |
Author Underrepresented Group | African-American; POC; Black (Search) |
Keyword(s) & Features: | Alone; Answering; Bending; Dawn; Despair; Dew; Dreadful; Dripping; Dropping; Earth; Grass; Ground; Hair; Hearing; Hearts; Lead; Listening; Loneliness; Metaphor: Heart as Lead; Names; Nature; Night; Personification: Trees; Roses; Silence; Solemn; Solitude; Sounds; Stretching; Tearing; Trees; Walking; Warm; Weeping |
First Line | All that night I walked alone and wept. (Search) |
Year of composition | 1972 (Search) |
Link to English Text Online | https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/gethsemane-8 |
Larger Work | Songs of the Night/Borderline (Search) |
Original Language | English (Search) |
Catalog Designation | No. 8 (Search) |
Voice part suggested by composer | Soprano |
Commissioned By | Rita Sansone (Search) |
Notes | From a twelve-song cycle "Songs of the Night," whose first and last movements, "RĂªve" and "Evening Song," are for solo piano. Eight songs were recorded by the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor String Quartet on the album "Calvary" as "Borderline." This recording excluded the two aforementioned piano movements as well as "Borderline" and "Where Have You Gone?" Information from a list compiled by Indiana Public Media: https://indianapublicmedia.org/static/pdf/baker-compositions.pdf (Search) |
Other instrumentation and voice | Soprano and string quartet (Search) |
Sources Cited | African Diaspora Music Project, created by Dr. Louise Toppin (Search) |
Contributor | Dr. Louise Toppin; GTM (Search) |