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Die Bürgschaft
Song Title
Die Bürgschaft (
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Composer(s):
Franz Schubert
Author(s):
Friedrich Schiller
Keyword(s) & Features:
Addressee: Zeus
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Alliances
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Anxiety
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Appearing
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Arches
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Arms
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Astonishment
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Ballad
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Banks
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Begging
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Bending
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Bloody
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Blows
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Boasting
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Boats
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Branches
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Breaking
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Bridges
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Bright
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Brooks
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Brutes
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Bubbling
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Burning
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Calling
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Calming
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Chorus
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Cliffs
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Cloaks
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Comrades
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Courage
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Courting
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Creaking
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Creeping
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Crimes
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Crosses
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Crowds
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Crucifixion
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Crying
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Cunning
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Daggers
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Damon
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Dawn
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Day
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Deadlines
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Death
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Delusions
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Destroying
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Dionysus
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Duty
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Dying
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Embracing
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Endless
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Escaping
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Executioners
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Executions
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Eyes
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Failing
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Faith
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Favor
;
Fear
;
Feet
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Fetters
;
Fire
;
Floods
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Forgiving
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Friends
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Friendship
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Gangs
;
Gates
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Giving
;
Glowing
;
Gods
;
Green
;
Guarantees
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Guardians
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Hands
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Haste
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Hearts
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Hindering
;
Holy
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Hope
;
Hours
;
Houses
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Humanity
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Hurrying
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Husbands
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Journeys
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Joy
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Joyful
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Kings
;
Knees
;
Lackeys
;
Land
;
Languishing
;
Liberating
;
Life
;
Limbs
;
Listening
;
Living
;
Looking
;
Love
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Loyalty
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Masters
;
Merciful
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Metaphor: River as Sea
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Metaphor: Spring as Murmur
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Missing
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Mountains
;
Multiple Speakers
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Murder
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Murmurs
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Mythology
;
Night
;
Pacing
;
Pain
;
Painting
;
Pale
;
Paying
;
People
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Personification: Sun
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Places
;
Pouring
;
Power of Love
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Promises
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Punishment
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Pursuing
;
Pythias
;
Quests
;
Rage
;
Rain
;
Raising
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Rapid
;
Rays
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Ready
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Recitative
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Refreshing
;
Regretting
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Rescuing
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Return
;
Rivers
;
Roads
;
Sailors
;
Saviors
;
Scorn
;
Seas
;
Sentences
;
Setting
;
Shadows
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Shining
;
Shores
;
Silver
;
Sinking
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Sisters
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Smiling
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Souls
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Springs
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Stirring
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Story
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Strangling
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Strong
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Structures
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Struggles
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Sun
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Sunset
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Swaying
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Swelling
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Syracuse
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Tears
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Tests
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Thanking
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Thieves
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Thieving
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Thrones
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Thundering
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Time
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Too Late
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Towers
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Towns
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Travelers
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Trees
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Trials
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Trickling
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True
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Tyrants
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Uniting
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Victims
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Voices
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Waiting
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Waves
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Welcome
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Whirlpools
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Wild
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Woods
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Words
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Worrying
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Zeus
First Line
Zu Dionys, dem Tyrannen, schlich (
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Average Duration
16:30 (
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Year of composition
1815 (
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Link to English Text Online
http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=117093
Musical Form
Through-composed (
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Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups
Sturm und Drang; Weimar Classicism (
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Original Language
German (
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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 Designation
D. 246 (
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Range:
A3 - Ab5 (
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Original Key
G minor (
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Notes
Composed in August (
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