The Monks of Bangor's March

Song TitleThe Monks of Bangor's March (Search)
Composer(s):Ludwig van Beethoven
Author(s):Walter Scott
Keyword(s) & Features: Abbeys; Anthem; Arches; Bands; Bangor; Banners; Battles; Blades; Blood; Bread; Brockmael; Broken; Burning; Catholicism; Censers; Cestria; Chanting; Charity; Chester; Choirs; Churches; Clanging; Cloister; Couplets; Crosses; Cruel; Death; Decrees; Destruction; Divine; Doom; Duet; Duty; Faith; Fighting; Floating; Friars; Funerals; Glory; Glowing; Grey; Grief; Hands; Heathens; Holy; Hymn; Killing; Latin; Loss; Manes; Marches; Marching; Masses (Religious Services); Mild; Miserere; Monks; Mothers; Mourning; Murder; Music; Noble; North; Nuns; Obligation; Olfrid; Parting; Past; Peace; Piety; Pilgrims; Priests; Processions; Recalling; Recounting; Remembering; Respect; Returning; Reverence; Ringing; Sacrifice; Saints; Saxon; Shattered; Shrines; Sighing; Singing; Smiling; Souls; Sounds; Steeds; Stories; Swinging; Tales; Towers; Tragedy; Trumpets; Veils; Virgins; Wailing; Warriors; Wars; Wild; Woe; Worshipping
First LineWhen the heathen trumpet's clang (Search)
Average Duration2:30 (Search)
Year of composition 1817 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinewww.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=26651
Larger Work26 Welsh Songs (Search)
Musical FormStrophic (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsMember of the Tory establishment and the Highland Society; Victorian (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Score Source https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/d/d6/IMSLP59179-PMLP121424-Beethoven_-_26_Wallisische_Lieder_Voice_(Piano_Trio)_Violin_Cello_Piano_score.pdf
Audio Source https://open.spotify.com/track/1rtvleKSL8UdYSQsGQvC0g?si=XlhcMwdzSAyPY2HTVHAmfw
Catalog DesignationWoO 155 no. 2 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerSoprano and Mezzo-soprano or Contralto
Range: Soprano: C4; Alto: B3 - Soprano: F5; Alto: Eb5
Original KeyEb Major (Search)
Premiered By (Search)
NotesCommissioned by publisher George Thomson (Search)
Other instrumentation and voice2 voices, piano, violin, violoncelllo (Search)
ContributorAL (Search)
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