Tis but in vain
| Song Title | Tis 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 Line | Tis but in vain, for nothing thrives (Search) |
| Average Duration | 4:00 (Search) |
| Year of composition | 1814 - 1816 (Search) |
| Link to English Text Online | http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=24568 |
| Larger Work | Twenty Irish Songs (Search) |
| Musical Form | Strophic (Search) |
| Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups | Whiggism (Search) |
| Original Language | English (Search) |
| Score Source | https://s9.imslp.org/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 Designation | WoO 153 no. 15 (Search) |
| Range: | C4 - F5 (Search) |
| Original Key | F Major (Search) |
| Premiered By | (Search) |
| Notes | Poet was a Cambridge history professor (Search) |
| Other instrumentation and voice | Voice, piano, violin, violoncello (Search) |