Robin Adair

Song TitleRobin Adair (Search)
Composer(s):Ludwig van Beethoven
Author(s):Robert Burns
Keyword(s) & Features: Adair; Air; Behaving; Betrayal; Betrayed Love; Birds; Bitterness; Caves; Couples; Courtesy; Covering; Cruelty; Cupid; Dames; Darts; Death; Deceiving; Desires; Despair; Elegy; Ended Relationships; Entrances; Expressing; False; False Love; Fire; Funerals; Ghosts; Gloom; Graves; Grief; Heartache; Heartbreak; Hearts; Hollow; Inescapable Love; Killing; Kindness; Leaves; Leaving; Loss; Lost Love; Love; Lovers; Maids; Metaphor: Betrayal as Murder; Mulitiple Translators; Raving; Redbreasts; Robin; Robin Adair; Sadness; Shade; Sighing; Singing; Solitude; Sorrow; Sun; Tears; Trio; Unfaithfulness; Visiting; Voices; Vows; Wilderness; Wind
First LineSince all thy vows, false maid, are blown to air (Search)
Average Duration4:30 (Search)
Year of composition 1815 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttp://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=26318
Larger Work12 Songs of Various Nationalities (Search)
Musical FormStrophic (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsRomanticism; Liberalism; Socialism; National poet of Scotland; Scottish Makar tradition; Republicanism; Anticlericalism (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Score Source https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/c/ce/IMSLP53231-PMLP106774-Beethoven_Werke_Breitkopf_Serie_24_No_259_12_Volkslieder_WoO_157.pdf
Audio Source https://open.spotify.com/track/62YrWS2lIWYjQvXOrj3kvx?si=KgSfbcIIRBSFoevBgC5FhQ
Catalog DesignationWoO 157 no. 7 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerSoprano, Tenor, and Bass
Range: Soprano: G4; Tenor: G3; Bass: C3 - Soprano: G5; Tenor: G4; Bass: C4
Original KeyC Major (Search)
Premiered By (Search)
NotesNational poet of Scotland (Search)
Other instrumentation and voiceVoices, piano, violin, violoncello (Search)
More Than One Voice?Trio (Search)
ContributorAL (Search)
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