Enchantress, Farewell

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Song TitleEnchantress, Farewell (Search)
Composer(s):Ludwig van Beethoven
Author(s):Walter Scott
Keyword(s) & Features: Accents; Age; Aid; Alternate; Apathy; Assuaging; Bards; Bewailing; Breaking; Chillness; Close; Cold; Coming; Darkening; Decoying; Disappointment; Doubling; Dropping; Elated; Enchantment; Enchantresses; Espying; Estrangement; Evening; Exists in Composer-sanctioned Translation; Fancy; Farewell; Feeling; Foresters; Forests; Forgotten; Friends; Goblets; Gradual; Grief; Hanging; Heartstrings; Holding; Home; In Vain; Joys; Knowing; Language; Languor; Leaving; Life; Lips; Lovers; Luck; Lying Down; Magic; Maidens; Meeting; Memory; No More; Numbers; Oft; Once; Over; Pain; Pale; Pangs; Partings; Plains; Pulses; Queens; Quick; Quitting; Rapture; Reigns; Rejection; Remaining; Roaming; Scenes; Seeking; Separation; Singing; Slumbering; Sorrow; Speaking; Strains; Stretching; Taking; Teaching; Today; Tomorrow; Useless; Vain; Voices; Waning; Warriors; Ways; Weary; Wild; Woe; Wonder; Woodlands
First LineEnchantress, farewell / O Zaub’rin, leb’ wohl (Search)
Average Duration4:00 (Search)
Year of composition 1818 (Search)
Larger Work25 Schottische Lieder (London/Edinburgh 1818, Berlin 1822) (Search)
Musical FormStrophic (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsMember of the Tory establishment and the Highland Society; Victorian (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Score Source https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/a/a8/IMSLP53078-PMLP98037-Beethoven_Werke_Breitkopf_Serie_24_No_257_Op_108.pdf
Audio Source https://open.spotify.com/track/5n8KU6jvnqUsHum4EgsOgL
Catalog DesignationOp. 108, No. 18 (Search)
Complete Edition ReferenceBeethoven Werke (Henle, 1994-2014) 11/1, 91 (Search)
Range: C#4 - F#5 (Search)
Original KeyA Major (Search)
Other instrumentation and voice(1818) Voice, Violin, Violoncello, Piano. (1822 includes Flute) (Search)
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