Die Bürgschaft

Song TitleDie Bürgschaft (Search)
Composer(s):Franz Schubert
Author(s):Friedrich Schiller
Keyword(s) & Features: Addressee: Zeus; Alliances; Anxiety; Appearing; Arches; Arms; Astonishment; Ballad; Banks; Begging; Bending; Bloody; Blows; Boasting; Boats; Branches; Breaking; Bridges; Bright; Brooks; Brutes; Bubbling; Burning; Calling; Calming; Chorus; Cliffs; Cloaks; Comrades; Courage; Courting; Creaking; Creeping; Crimes; Crosses; Crowds; Crucifixion; Crying; Cunning; Daggers; Damon; Dawn; Day; Deadlines; Death; Delusions; Destroying; Dionysus; Duty; Dying; Embracing; Endless; Escaping; Executioners; Executions; Eyes; Failing; Faith; Favor; Fear; Feet; Fetters; Fire; Floods; Forgiving; Friends; Friendship; Gangs; Gates; Giving; Glowing; Gods; Green; Guarantees; Guardians; Hands; Haste; Hearts; Hindering; Holy; Hope; Hours; Houses; Humanity; Hurrying; Husbands; Journeys; Joy; Joyful; Kings; Knees; Lackeys; Land; Languishing; Liberating; Life; Limbs; Listening; Living; Looking; Love; Loyalty; Masters; Merciful; Metaphor: River as Sea; Metaphor: Spring as Murmur; Missing; Mountains; Multiple Speakers; Murder; Murmurs; Mythology; Night; Pacing; Pain; Painting; Pale; Paying; People; Personification: Sun; Places; Pouring; Power of Love; Promises; Punishment; Pursuing; Pythias; Quests; Rage; Rain; Raising; Rapid; Rays; Ready; Recitative; Refreshing; Regretting; Rescuing; Return; Rivers; Roads; Sailors; Saviors; Scorn; Seas; Sentences; Setting; Shadows; Shining; Shores; Silver; Sinking; Sisters; Smiling; Souls; Springs; Stirring; Story; Strangling; Strong; Structures; Struggles; Sun; Sunset; Swaying; Swelling; Syracuse; Tears; Tests; Thanking; Thieves; Thieving; Thrones; Thundering; Time; Too Late; Towers; Towns; Travelers; Trees; Trials; Trickling; True; Tyrants; Uniting; Victims; Voices; Waiting; Waves; Welcome; Whirlpools; Wild; Woods; Words; Worrying; Zeus
First LineZu Dionys, dem Tyrannen, schlich (Search)
Average Duration16:30 (Search)
Year of composition 1815 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttp://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=117093
Musical FormThrough-composed (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsSturm und Drang; Weimar Classicism (Search)
Original LanguageGerman (Search)
Score Source https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/2/27/IMSLP11656-SchubertD246_Die_Burgschaft.pdf
Audio Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANYl71yAc58
Catalog DesignationD. 246 (Search)
Range: A3 - Ab5 (Search)
Original KeyG minor (Search)
NotesComposed in August (Search)
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