La mort d'Ophélie

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Song TitleLa mort d'Ophélie (Search)
Composer(s):Hector Berlioz
Author(s):Ernest Legouvé
Keyword(s) & Features: Abysses; Allusion: Hamlet; Ballade; Banks; Branches; Breaking; Buttercups; Colors; Currents; Dead; Death; Depression; Despair; Drowning; Fingers; Floating; Flowers; Frail; Garlands; Hands; Irises; Madness; Melodies; Morning; Naiads; Opal; Ophelia; Pale; Periwinkles; Personification: Brooks; Personification: Clothing; Pink; Robes; Sails; Shakespeare, William; Singing; Streams; Suicide; Sweet; Tender; Torrents; Treasures; Treble Chorus; Water; White; Willows
First LineAuprès d'un torrent Ophélie (Search)
Average Duration7:00 (Search)
Year of composition 1848 (Search)
Larger WorkTristia (Search)
Musical FormThrough-composed (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsAcadémie française (Search)
Original LanguageFrench (Search)
Score Source https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/e/e8/IMSLP19750-PMLP46302-La_mort_d'Ophélie.pdf
Audio Source https://open.spotify.com/track/1QCCIJ3awV9P5kZAj5gORZ?si=pu--Du9iT6Cvl2YAQqdHEQ
Link to IPA Source https://www.ipasource.com/product/la-mort-dophelie/
Catalog DesignationOp. 18 no. 2 (H 92A) (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerSoprano or Tenor
Range: D4 - G5 (Search)
Original KeyBb Major (Search)
NotesPoem based on Shakespeare's Hamlet (Search)
Orchestra and voice?Yes (Search)
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