Der Tod Oskars

Song TitleDer Tod Oskars (Search)
Composer(s):Franz Schubert
Author(s):Edmund von Harold (after James Macpherson (as translator of "Ossian"))
Keyword(s) & Features: Alone; Alpin; Ancient; Ardannider; Ardven; Arrows; Battles; Beaming; Beams; Birches; Black; Blessings; Blind; Blood; Bosoms; Bows; Branches; Branno; Breasts; Breath; Brooks; Brows; Caruth; Chiefs; Children; Cleaving; Clouds; Contains Recitative; Courses; Covering; Curdling; Dargo; Daughters; Death; Death of a Loved One; Delight; Dermid; Diaran; Dying; Earth; Enemies; Equal; Eyes; Fainting; Fair; Falling; Fame; Feeding; Fields; Fighting; Fixing; Flames; Fleeing; Floating; Foes; Forgetting; Fresh; Friends; Friendship; Gales; Gloom; Gormur; Grass; Graves; Green; Grief; Hands; Harmless; Heads; Healing; Hearts; Heaths; Heroes; Hills; Honor; Inquiring; Killing; Life; Lopping; Love; Lovers; Maidens; Memories; Metaphor: Breast as Snow; Metaphor: Breath as Wind; Metaphor: Eyes as Stars; Metaphor: Friendship as Steel; Metaphor: Person as Moon; Metaphor: Person as Sun; Metaphor: Speaker as Tree; Metaphor: Woman as Morning; Metaphor: Woman as Night; Mighty; Mild; Moon; Morning; Morven; Moss; Mouldering; Mountains; Mourning; Names; Night; North; Oaks; Opening; Oscar; Parents; Passing; Past; Peace in Death; Perception; Personification: Death; Piercing; Possessing; Pride; Ranks; Reaping; Recalling; Relating; Relieving; Remembering; Renowned; Returning; Rising; Rocks; Shade; Shields; Showers; Silence; Skill; Slaying; Smiling; Snow; Sons; Sorrow; Souls; Speaker: Parent; Spears; Spring; Springs; Stains; Stars; Steel; Stones; Storms; Story; Sun; Swords; Teaching; Tears; Tombs; Traveling; Trembling; Unequal; Unknown; Vain; Valiant; Walking; Warriors; Wars; Waste; Wasting; Water; Waves; White; Whiteness; Wielding; Wings; Worthy; Yews; Yielding; Youth
First LineWarum öffnest du wieder (Search)
Average Duration16:00 (Search)
Year of composition 1816 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttp://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=18742
Musical FormThrough-composed (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsRomanticism (Search)
Original LanguageGerman (Search)
Score Source https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/9/96/IMSLP15534-SchubertD375_Der_Tod_Oscars.pdf
Audio Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrScy8N7Jc0
Link to IPA Source https://www.ipasource.com/product/der-tod-und-das-madchen-2/
Catalog DesignationD. 375 (Search)
Range: Bb3 - G5 (Search)
Original KeyC minor (Search)
ContributorGTM (Search)
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