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Like to the Damask Rose
Song Title
Like to the Damask Rose (
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Composer(s):
Sir Edward Elgar
Author(s):
Simon Wastell
Keyword(s) & Features:
Ascending
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Birds
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Blasting
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Blossoms
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Breath
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Brevity of Life
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Consuming
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Cutting
;
Dainty
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Damask
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Damask Roses
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Day
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Death
;
Dew
;
Done
;
Dying
;
Ending
;
Ephemeral
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Fading
;
Fleeting
;
Flowers
;
Flying
;
Gourds
;
Grass
;
Hasting
;
Hours
;
Humankind
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Impermanence
;
Jonah
;
Life
;
Living
;
Mankind
;
May
;
Metaphor: Life as Fleeting Things
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Metaphor: Life as Flower
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Morning
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Mortality
;
New
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Pearled
;
Roses
;
Setting
;
Shade
;
Shadows
;
Short
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Singing
;
Spans
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Springing
;
Sun
;
Swans
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Tales
;
Trees
;
Withering
First Line
Like to the damask rose you see, (
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Average Duration
3:30 (
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Year of composition
1892 (
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Link to English Text Online
http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=41841
Musical Form
Modified strophic (
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Original Language
English (
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Score Source
https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/4/4f/IMSLP57431-PMLP118038-Elgar_-_Like_to_the_Damask_rose_(voice_and_piano).pdf
Audio Source
https://open.spotify.com/track/24DrAq0NiKnLDvbdQffZJm
Range:
Bb3 - G5 (
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Original Key
Bb minor (
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Premiered By
Charles Phillips (
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Contributor
GTM (
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