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Wife, Children and Friends
Song Title
Wife, Children and Friends (
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Composer(s):
Ludwig van Beethoven
Author(s):
William Robert Spencer
Keyword(s) & Features:
Afterlife
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Age
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Arabia
;
Caravans
;
Cheating
;
Children
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Comfort
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Companionship
;
Defeating
;
Distant Love
;
Dreary
;
Drinking
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Duet
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Duty
;
Dying
;
Earth
;
Embers
;
Enjoyment
;
Familial Love
;
Family
;
Fate
;
Final Thoughts
;
Fragrance
;
Friends
;
Gales
;
Glass
;
Goddesses
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Gods
;
Heaven
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Immortal
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Justice
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Latitude
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Laurels
;
Lists
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Loneliness
;
Love
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Memory
;
Merchants
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Metaphor: Twilight as Aging
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Mortals
;
Nourishing
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Patriotism
;
Penance
;
Pluto
;
Power of Love
;
Remembrance
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Sadness
;
Schemes
;
Smiles
;
Soldiers
;
Songs
;
Sorrow
;
Stories
;
Tars
;
Tears
;
Toasting
;
Twilight
;
Valor
;
Virtue
;
Warmth
;
Willows
;
Wives
;
Woodbines
;
Youth
First Line
When the black letter'd list to the gods was presented (
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Average Duration
4:00 (
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Year of composition
1810 - 1813
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Link to English Text Online
http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=24293
Larger Work
25 Irish Songs (
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Musical Form
Strophic (
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Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups
Vers de société (
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Original Language
English (
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Score Source
https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/d/d8/IMSLP59206-PMLP106767-Beethoven_Werke_Breitkopf_Serie_24_No_261_WoO_152.pdf
Audio Source
https://open.spotify.com/track/34A7PzKp4aviQ0qot2mTi8?si=FBPKIt-qSziFD7d9EdOPJw
Catalog Designation
WoO 152 no. 19 (
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Voice part suggested by composer
Soprano and Tenor
Range:
Soprano: E4; Tenor: G#3 - Soprano: F5; Tenor: G4
Original Key
C Major (
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Other instrumentation and voice
2 voices, piano, violin, violoncello (
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More Than One Voice?
Duet (
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