Lochnagar

Song TitleLochnagar (Search)
Composer(s):Ludwig van Beethoven
Author(s):George Gordon Byron, Baron, 'Lord' Byron
Keyword(s) & Features: Addressee: Landscapes; Addressee: Lochnagar; Addressee: Mountain; Addressee: Nature; Admiring; Albion; Anticipation; Asking; Beauty; Beloved; Bonnets; Caledonia; Carefree; Change; Cheer; Childhood; Cloaks; Comparisons; Culture; Dark; Day; Dear; Domestic; Dying; Elements; England; Exploring; Familiar; Family; Fancy; Far away; Flowing; Foam; Footsteps; Fountains; Freedom; Frowning; Gardens; Glades; Glory; Heartache; Home; Homeland; Homesickness; Hope; Infants; Landscapes; Leaving; Leaving Home; Lochnagar; Longing; Love; Luxury; Majesty; Memories; Missing; Mountains; Native; Nature; North Star; Observing; Past; Pines; Plaid; Plains; Polaris; Pondering; Rays; Remembering; Reposing; Requests; Restoring; Returning; Reunions; Roaming; Rocks; Roses; Roving; Sacred; Scotland; Seeking; Sighing; Smooth; Snowflakes; Sorrow; Stars; Stories; Summits; Tame; Tradition; Trio; Valleys; Walking; Wandering; Wars; White; Wild; Years; Youth
First LineAway ye gay landscapes (Search)
Average Duration4:00 (Search)
Year of composition 1818 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinewww.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=24655
Larger Work12 Scottish Songs (Search)
Musical FormStrophic (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsRomanticism (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Score Source https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/6/6f/IMSLP320140-PMLP121356-LvBeethoven_12_Schottische_Lieder,_WoO_156_BH_Werke_score.pdf
Audio Source https://open.spotify.com/track/0jIzOZc3n0KauRxOLyvrjF?si=Ssd2Y4pwSteYUrg6FnHWog
Catalog DesignationWoO 156 no. 9 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerSoprano, Tenor, and Bass
Range: Soprano: D4; Tenor: F3; Bass: G2 - Soprano: G5; Tenor: Eb4; Bass: G3
Original KeyG minor (Search)
Premiered By (Search)
Other instrumentation and voiceVoices, piano, violin, violoncello (Search)
More Than One Voice?Trio (Search)
ContributorAL (Search)
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