Full Fathom Five
Song Title | Full Fathom Five (Search) |
Composer(s): | Henry Purcell |
Author(s): | William Shakespeare |
Keyword(s) & Features: | Ariel; Bells; Bodies; Bones; Coral; Corpses; Dead; Death; Ding Dong; Drowning; Eyes; Fading; Fathers; Fathoms; Ferdinand; Hearing; Knells; Lying; Metamorphoses; Metaphor: Bones as Coral; Metaphor: Eyes as Pearls; Mystical; Nymphs; Pearls; Rich; Ringing; Sea-change; Seas; Spirits; Strange; Suffering; Water |
First Line | Full fathom five thy father lies. (Search) |
Average Duration | 2:15 (Search) |
Year of composition | 1695 (Search) Circa |
Link to English Text Online | https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=14858 |
Larger Work | The Tempest (Semi-opera) (Search) |
Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups | Elizabethan poetry and drama (Search) |
Original Language | English (Search) |
Score Source | https://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ReverseLookup/218070 |
Audio Source | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWXDUJKXpqM |
Catalog Designation | Z 631 (Search) |
Range: | C4 - G5 (Search) |
Original Key | C Major (Search) |
Other instrumentation and voice | Can be performed with harpsichord, continuo (Search) |
Contributor | GTM , Noah Hay (Search) |
Contributor Affiliation | University of Connecticut (Search) |