Die Mondnacht

Song TitleDie Mondnacht (Search)
Composer(s):Franz Schubert
Author(s):Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten
Keyword(s) & Features: Addressee: Joy; Agony; Anguish; Bearing; Beauty; Beings; Bliss; Blooming; Breaking; Breasts; Brooks; Bushes; Circling; Comfort; Contrast: Dark vs. Light; Contrast: Joy vs. Sadness; Cooling; Darkening; Darkness; Dew; Dewy; Disappearing; Dreams; Drowned; Drunk; Earth; Embracing; Extinguishing; Filling; Fluttering; Fruit; Gentle; Gleaming; Glimmering; Glistening; Hearts; Heaven; High; Hurling; Intimate; Intimating; Intoxication; Joy; Knowing; Leaves; Light; Lost; Loving; Meadows; Melancholy; Moon; Moonbeams; Moonlight; Moonlit; Mountains; Nature; Night; Pain; Painting; Peaks; Poplars; Powerful; Priceless; Pure; Purity; Radiance; Raining; Rays; Recovering; Refreshing; Rolling; Satisfying; Seeing; Shimmering; Shining; Silver; Spaces; Sparing; Sparks; Speaking; Stirring; Submerging; Swaying; Sweet; Tears; Thronging; Tops; Trees; Twining; Uniting; Urging; Voices; Wastelands; Whispering; Yearning
First LineSiehe, wie die Mondesstrahlen (Search)
Average Duration2:30 (Search)
Year of composition 1815 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttps://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=308146
Musical FormStrophic (Search)
Original LanguageGerman (Search)
Score Source https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/7/71/IMSLP14718-SchubertD238_Die_Mondnacht.pdf
Audio Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5hfMpZAVeU
Catalog DesignationD. 238 (Search)
Range: F#4 - G#5 (Search)
Original KeyF# Major (Search)
NotesComposed July 25 (Search)
ContributorGTM (Search)
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