As it is, plenty
Song record peer reviewed by Editorial Board member: Jacquelyn Matava| Song Title | As it is, plenty (Search) |
| Composer(s): | Benjamin Britten |
| Composer Underrepresented Group | LGBTQ+ (Search) |
| Author(s): | W. H. Auden (Wystan Hugh) |
| Author Underrepresented Group | LGBTQ+ (Search) |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Admitting; Banks; Betraying; Blessing; Cars; Ceasing; Children; Devoted; Enough; Far; Final; Forgetting; Future; Giving Thanks; Hair; Happy; Hauteur; Idyllic; Intransigent; Life; Losses; Love; Major; Modern; Mundane; Nature; Part of a Song Cycle; Passage of Time; Perfect; Plenty; Praising; Profit; Rough; Sins; Smiles; Spacious; Success; Thanksgiving; Thinning; Utopian; Venal; Wives; Work |
| First Line | As it is, plenty (Search) |
| Average Duration | 1:45 (Search) |
| Year of composition | 1937 (Search) |
| Link to English Text Online | https://www.oxfordlieder.co.uk/song/183 |
| Larger Work | On This Island (Search) |
| Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups | Modernism; Socialism (Search) |
| Original Language | English (Search) |
| Audio Source | https://open.spotify.com/track/00Og1EGpElQZMR9sKKIMIJ |
| Catalog Designation | Op. 11 no. 5 (Search) |
| Voice part suggested by composer | High voice |
| Range: | D4 - G5 (Search) |
| Original Key | D Major (Search) |
| Recommended Printed Source | https://www.boosey.com/cr/music/Benjamin-Britten-On-this-Island/5971 (Search) |