Tis but in vain

Song TitleTis but in vain (Search)
Composer(s):Ludwig van Beethoven
Author(s):William Smyth
Keyword(s) & Features: Alone; Behind; Breathing; Dermot; Distance; Ended Relationships; Feeling; Finding; Foes; Footsteps; Forsaking; Fortune; Friends; Gone; Heads; Heartache; Heartbreak; Hearts; Heaven; Home; Kindness; Knowing; Leaving; Months; Passing; Poverty; Pursuing; Refrains; Roaming; Sailing; Seeming; Separation; Sorrow; Striving; Sure; Thriving; Tides; Unkindness; Vain; Weary; West; Wind
First LineTis but in vain, for nothing thrives (Search)
Average Duration4:00 (Search)
Year of composition 1814 - 1816 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttp://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=24568
Larger WorkTwenty Irish Songs (Search)
Musical FormStrophic (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsWhiggism (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Score Source http://conquest.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/f/f5/IMSLP59207-PMLP121474-Beethoven_Werke_Breitkopf_Serie_24_No_262_WoO_153.pdf
Audio Source https://open.spotify.com/track/0GgzXbuNufQm7TKXHd4yZe?si=QJ101Zb5TnyU6I2s6aEC6A
Catalog DesignationWoO 153 no. 15 (Search)
Range: C4 - F5 (Search)
Original KeyF Major (Search)
Premiered By (Search)
Other instrumentation and voiceVoice, piano, violin, violoncello (Search)
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