Mirabai Songs

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Mirabai Songs is a song cycle by American composer John Harbison that sets English translations of devotional poetry by the 16th-century Indian mystic poet Mirabai.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf song cycle
basedOn English translations of Mirabai’s devotional poetry
poetry of Mirabai
centuryOfComposition 20th century
composer John Harbison
composerNationality American
countryOfOrigin United States
dedicatedTo Mirabai (as spiritual subject)
genre classical music
contemporary classical music
hasArrangement voice and chamber ensemble
voice and orchestra
hasCategory Classical song cycles in English
Musical settings of poems
Song cycles by John Harbison
Works based on Indian literature
hasPart All I Was Doing Was Breathing
Don’t Go, Don’t Go
It’s True, I Went to the Market
The Clouds
Where Did You Go?
Why Mira Can’t Go Back to Her Old House
hasTitleLanguage English
inspiredBy Bhakti tradition
language English
movementCount 6
originalInstrumentation voice and piano
style lyrical
modernist
subject Mirabai
textAuthor Mirabai
textLanguage English translation from original Hindi/Rajasthani
textSource devotional poetry
theme devotion to Krishna
mysticism
spiritual love
usesPoeticForm free verse (in translation)
workType vocal music

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
John Harbison
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