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Die Hochländer-Witwe
Song Title
Die Hochländer-Witwe (
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Composer(s):
Robert Schumann
Author(s):
Wilhelm Gerhard (after Robert Burns)
Keyword(s) & Features:
Anguish
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Battle of Culloden (April 16, 1746)
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Battlefields
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Battles
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Bloody
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Butter
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Casualties
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Clans
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Clover
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Coming
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Contentment
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Couples
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Cows
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Death
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Death in Combat
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Death of a Loved One
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Death of a Lover
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Donald
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Dying
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Ecstatic
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Farms
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Finding
;
Fleece
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Fortune
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Free
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Frost
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Giving
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Good
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Grazing
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Great
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Grief
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Handsome
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Happy
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Heartache
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Heights
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Highlanders
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Home
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Hunger
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Injustices
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Knowing
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Lands
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Lending
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Lowlands
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Marriage
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Masters
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Men
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Milk
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Mourning
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Peace
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Perishing
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Pillaging
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Rejoicing
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Remaining
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Scotland
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Seas
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Security
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Servants
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Service
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Sheep
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Sixty
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Slaying
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Snow
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Soft
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Soldiers
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Sorrow
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Starvation
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Stealing
;
Stuart, Charles Edward
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Twenty
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Unhappiness
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Valleys
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Warfare
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Warmth
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Widows
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Winter
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Wives
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Woe
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Women
First Line
Ich bin gekommen ins Niederland (
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Average Duration
1:30 (
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Year of composition
1840 (
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Link to English Text Online
http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=113256
Larger Work
Myrthen (
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Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups
Romanticism; Liberalism; Socialism; National poet of Scotland; Scottish Makar tradition; Republicanism; Anticlericalism (
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Original Language
German (
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Score Source
https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/d/db/IMSLP51688-PMLP12732-RS120.pdf
Link to IPA Source
https://www.ipasource.com/product/die-hochlander-witwe-2/
Catalog Designation
Op. 25 no. 10 (
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Range:
D4 - G5 (
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Original Key
E minor (
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Dedicated To
Clara Schumann (
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Notes
Myrthen was composed as a wedding gift to Schumann's bride, Clara Wieck (
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Contributor
AL (
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