Oh, Had My Fate Been Join'd With Thine

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Song TitleOh, Had My Fate Been Join'd With Thine (Search)
Composer(s):Ludwig van Beethoven
Author(s):George Gordon Byron, Baron, 'Lord' Byron
Keyword(s) & Features: Abhorrence; Abhorring; Addressee: Former Lover; Adoring; Aid; Alas; Angels; Another; Any; Asking; Attempting; Awaiting; Bands; Beating; Being Forsaken; Bestowing; Betrayed Love; Blaming; Blooming; Bosoms; Breaking; Broken; Calm; Cheeks; Conquering; Deceit; Deceitful; Destroying; Domestic; Driving; Early; Empty; Endeavors; Enduring; Every; Exists in Composer-sanctioned Translation; Farewell; Fate; Faults; Fears; Feeling; Fevers; Fire; Flushing; Follies; Forever; Forgetting; Forms; Friends; Fruitless; Giddy; Gone; Half; Hating; Hearts; Hope; Hopelessness; Hushing; In Spite; Joining; Joy; Joys; Knowing; Laments; Libertines; Loss of Peace; Lost; Lost Love; Love; Loving; Madness; Maids; Many; Measures; Memory; Metaphor: Loss of Innocence; Mine; Nature; Never; No More; Noises; Now; Old; Once; Pale; Palling (Shrouding); Parting; Passion; Peace; Pitying; Pleasures; Pledging; Possible; Pride; Promiscuity; Pure; Quiet; Regret; Regretting; Reproving; Resignation; Resting; Riots; Rising; Rivals; Round; Rural; Sadness; Sake; Scenes; Scorn; Self-loathing; Sins; Smiling; Smothering; Souls; Speaker: Man/Masculine; Spoiling; Stealing; Strains; Sweet; Teaching; Then; Then and Now; Thinking; Thoughtless; Thoughts; Throngs; Tiresome; Tokens; Vain; Various; Vows; Waste; Wise; Years; Yielding
First LineOh, had my fate been join'd with thine / O hätte doch dies goldne Pfand (Search)
Average Duration4:30 (Search)
Year of composition 1816 (Search)
Larger Work25 Schottische Lieder (London/Edinburgh 1818, Berlin 1822) (Search)
Musical FormStrophic (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsRomanticism (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Score Source https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/a/a8/IMSLP53078-PMLP98037-Beethoven_Werke_Breitkopf_Serie_24_No_257_Op_108.pdf
Audio Source https://open.spotify.com/track/24LhKUFBzRrVR5NUO494dg
Catalog DesignationOp. 108, No. 12 (Search)
Complete Edition ReferenceBeethoven Werke (Henle, 1994-2014) 11/1, 59 (Search)
Range: D4 - F#5 (Search)
Original KeyD Major (Search)
Other instrumentation and voice(1818) Voice, Violin, Violoncello, Piano. (1822 includes Flute) (Search)
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