It’s True, I Went to the Market

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"It’s True, I Went to the Market" is one of the songs in John Harbison’s vocal cycle *Mirabai Songs*, setting the ecstatic, devotional poetry of the 16th-century Indian mystic Mirabai to contemporary classical music.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf art song
classical vocal work
song
associatedWith John Harbison
Mirabai Songs
surface form: Mirabai Songs (vocal cycle)
basedOn poetry of Mirabai
composer John Harbison
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
cyclePosition song in the cycle Mirabai Songs
genre contemporary classical music
hasCreator John Harbison
hasPoeticSource Meera Bai
surface form: Mirabai
inspiredBy 16th-century Indian devotional tradition
lyricist Meera Bai
surface form: Mirabai
musicalStyle modernist tonal language
originalMedium concert performance
partOf Mirabai Songs
partOfSeries Harbison vocal cycles
period late 20th-century classical music
subject devotional relationship to Krishna
textLanguage English
textSourceType translated devotional poetry
theme ecstatic devotion
mystical love
vocalType voice and ensemble

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Mirabai Songs hasPart It’s True, I Went to the Market