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By the Side of the Shannon
Song Title
By the Side of the Shannon (
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Composer(s):
Ludwig van Beethoven
Author(s):
William Smyth
Keyword(s) & Features:
Air
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Alone
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Animals
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Appearing
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Beaming
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Beauty
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Bees
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Blossoms
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Blowing
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Boys
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Change
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Complaining
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Connection to Nature
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Couples
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Cries
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Dear
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Delaying
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Dull
;
Ellen
;
Enchanting
;
Expressions
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Fear
;
Flowing
;
Flying
;
Frustration
;
Hate
;
Idle
;
Light
;
Listening
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Lovers
;
Majesty
;
Nature
;
Nightingales
;
Observing
;
Peace
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Playing
;
Protection
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Recounting
;
Remaining
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River Shannon
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Rivers
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Roses
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Safety
;
Seeing
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Serenity
;
Sighing
;
Singing
;
Sky
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Smiling
;
Soft
;
Songs
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Speaking
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Tempests
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Trouble
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Visions
;
Water
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Willows
;
Women
;
Youth
;
Zephyrs
First Line
By the side of Shannon was laid a young Lover (
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Average Duration
2:15 (
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Year of composition
1815 (
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Link to English Text Online
www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=26319
Larger Work
12 Songs of Various Nationalities (
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Musical Form
Strophic (
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Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups
Whiggism (
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Original Language
English (
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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/1hzuhxyay2TQQREih6dsYK?si=h5jP20vgT3-dsU4jJI90AA
Catalog Designation
WoO 157 no. 8 (
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Range:
B3 - E5 (
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Original Key
G Major (
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Premiered By
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Notes
Poet was a Cambridge history professor (
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Other instrumentation and voice
Voice, piano, violin, violoncello (
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Contributor
AL (
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