In vain to this desert
| Song Title | In vain to this desert (Search) |
| Composer(s): | Ludwig van Beethoven |
| Author(s): | Robert Burns (and Anne Grant) |
| Author Underrepresented Group | Woman (Search) |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Anguish; Blasts; Bleak; Bleeding; Breasts; Bruised; Closed; Comfort; Dark; Death; Deep; Deploring; Deserts; Despair; Duet; Dying; Eyes; Fate; Feeling; Giving; Hearing; Hearts; Imparting; Lost; Love; Multiple Poets; Nought; Open; Peaceful; Placing; Pleasures; Proving; Rest; Rude; Seeing; Shelter; Shores; Sleeping; Sore; Sorrows; Thorns; Throbbing; Transplanting; Unkindness; Vain; Waves; Weeping; White; Wilderness; Wildwood; Woes; Wrongs |
| First Line | In vain to this Desart my fate I deplore (Search) |
| Average Duration | 2:00 (Search) |
| Year of composition | 1810 - 1813 (Search) |
| Link to English Text Online | http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=24289 |
| Larger Work | 25 Irish Songs (Search) |
| Musical Form | Strophic (Search) |
| Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups | Romanticism; Liberalism; Socialism; National poet of Scotland; Scottish Makar tradition; Republicanism; Anticlericalism (Search) |
| Original Language | English (Search) |
| Score Source | https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/a/a6/IMSLP311544-PMLP106767-17._In_vain_to_this_desert.pdf |
| Audio Source | https://open.spotify.com/track/0ddlCBRChZxp9aQLCUm6yK?si=ZPnc-E-GQ1uBPWfxaUpwCA |
| Catalog Designation | WoO 152 no. 17 (Search) |
| Range: | High voice: D4; Low voice: C#4 - High voice: F#5; Low voice: C#5 |
| Original Key | D Major (Search) |
| Premiered By | (Search) |
| Notes | Poet grew up with the Schuyler family in New York (Search) |
| Other instrumentation and voice | 2 voices, piano, violin, violoncello (Search) |
| More Than One Voice? | Duet (Search) |
| Contributor | GTM (Search) |