In My Own Little Corner

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"In My Own Little Corner" is a popular solo song from the 1957 Rodgers and Hammerstein television musical "Cinderella," expressing the heroine's imaginative escape from her constrained life.

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In My Own Little Corner canonical 6

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Predicate Object
instanceOf show tune
song
associatedWith Rodgers and Hammerstein
1957 CBS television production of Cinderella
surface form: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella (1957 TV production)
basedOn Cinderella (fairy tale)
composer Richard Rodgers
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
dramaticContext sung after Cinderella is left alone at home
dramaticPurpose reveals Cinderella's hopes and imagination
firstAppearanceInWork Cinderella (1957 musical)
surface form: 1957 television musical Cinderella
genre musical theatre song
show tune
hasInfluenceOn subsequent Cinderella adaptations' solo songs
hasMusicalStyle Broadway-style
waltz-influenced ballad
includedIn cast recordings of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella
intendedVocalRange soprano
lyricalContent contrasts fantasy with domestic drudgery
daydreams of being in faraway places
lyricalPerspective first person
lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II
narrativeFunction I want song
character song
notableFor expressing the heroine's imaginative escape from her constrained life
notablePerformer Julie Andrews
originalLanguage English
originalMedium television musical
originalPerformer Julie Andrews
partOfWork Cinderella (fairy tale)
surface form: Cinderella

Cinderella (1957 musical)
surface form: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella
performedByCharacter Cinderella (1950 film)
surface form: Cinderella
settingDescribed Cinderella's home
a small corner used as a retreat
structure verse-chorus form
theme escapism
imagination
inner life
longing for freedom
title In My Own Little Corner self-link
usedIn stage adaptations of Cinderella
television remakes of Cinderella
vocalType solo
yearOfOrigin 1957

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Richard Rodgers notableWork In My Own Little Corner
Cinderella (1997 film) hasMusicalNumber In My Own Little Corner
Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella (1997) song In My Own Little Corner
In My Own Little Corner title In My Own Little Corner self-link
Cinderella (1957 musical) hasMusicalNumber In My Own Little Corner