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Sure on This Shining Night

art song composed by Samuel Barber
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Sure on This Shining Night

Summary

Sure on This Shining Night is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (122 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Sure on This Shining Night's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • Sure on This Shining Night's composer is recorded as Samuel Barber[4].
  • Sure on This Shining Night is part of Four Songs[5].
  • Sure on This Shining Night's language of work or name is recorded as English[6].
  • 1938 marks the founding of Sure on This Shining Night[7].
  • Sure on This Shining Night's lyricist is recorded as James Agee[8].
  • Sure on This Shining Night's instrumentation is recorded as voice[9].
  • Sure on This Shining Night's instrumentation is recorded as piano[10].
  • Sure on This Shining Night's title is recorded as Sure on This Shining Night[11].
  • Sure on This Shining Night's form of creative work is recorded as art song[12].
  • Sure on This Shining Night's opus number is recorded as 13, no. 3[13].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Song[14]

  • Genre(s): classical[15]

  • Community tags: classical, vocal music[16]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 13340057-2fa0-3283-9d6f-2d3184fc556b[17]

Body

Publication

Sure on This Shining Night's language of work or name is recorded as English[6]. It is part of Four Songs[5].

Why It Matters

Sure on This Shining Night ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (122 views/month).[2]

Related Entities

Samuel Barber

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Wise Music Classical. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Wise Music Classical. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [17] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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