Robin Adair
Song Title | Robin 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 Line | Since all thy vows, false maid, are blown to air (Search) |
Average Duration | 4:30 (Search) |
Year of composition | 1815 (Search) |
Link to English Text Online | http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=26318 |
Larger Work | 12 Songs of Various Nationalities (Search) |
Musical Form | Strophic (Search) |
Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups | Romanticism; Liberalism; Socialism; National poet of Scotland; Scottish Makar tradition; Republicanism; Anticlericalism (Search) |
Original Language | English (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 Designation | WoO 157 no. 7 (Search) |
Voice part suggested by composer | Soprano, Tenor, and Bass |
Range: | Soprano: G4; Tenor: G3; Bass: C3 - Soprano: G5; Tenor: G4; Bass: C4 |
Original Key | C Major (Search) |
Premiered By | (Search) |
Notes | National poet of Scotland (Search) |
Other instrumentation and voice | Voices, piano, violin, violoncello (Search) |
More Than One Voice? | Trio (Search) |
Contributor | AL (Search) |