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"I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'" is a song composed in 1934 by George Gershwin for the 1935 "folk-opera" ''Porgy and Bess'' (1934). The lyrics are by DuBose Heyward, the author of the novel ''Porgy'' on which the opera was based, and Ira Gershwin. It is one of the most famous songs from the opera (along with "Summertime," "It Ain't Necessarily So", and "Bess, You Is My Woman Now") and it has been recorded by hundreds of singers and music groups. The song expresses a cheerful acceptance of poverty as freedom from worldly cares. The singer says he has the most important things in life, "'Cause de things dat I prize, / Like de stars in de skies / All are free". Most of all, he's "got my gal, got my Lord, got my song". ==''Porgy and Bess''== Porgy sings the song in Act 2 after he and Bess have been living together, expressing his new happiness.〔Patrick M. Liebergen, "I Got Plenty of Nuttin'", ''Singer's Library of Arias'' , Alfred Music, 2008, p. 22ff.〕 Like several other arias in the opera, it is implied that it is being ''performed'' by the singer to the other characters, in this case as a banjo song. As elsewhere in the opera, other characters join in to create communal engagement with song. In the view of Joseph Horowitz, Gershwin made "a banjo song with choral interjections, a community moment".〔Horowitz, Joseph, ''"On My Way": The Untold Story of Rouben Mamoulian, George Gershwin, and Porgy and Bess'', W. W. Norton & Company, 2013, pp. 6-7; 130.〕 There is a short reprise of the song at the end of the act, as Porgy sings cheerfully to himself after Bess has left on her fateful trip to Kittiwah Island. The principal musical phrase also appears later in the score as a leitmotif signifying Porgy's joyful feelings, most extensively when Porgy returns after being released from prison. At the very end, a fragment of the principal phrase appears at the beginning of the final aria, "Oh Lawd I'm on my Way", to signal Porgy's renewed optimism and potential happiness as he sets out to find Bess.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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