Bonny Laddie, Highland Laddie

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Song TitleBonny Laddie, Highland Laddie (Search)
Composer(s):Ludwig van Beethoven
Author(s):James Hogg
Keyword(s) & Features: All; Beards; Belts; Blücher, Gebhard Leberecht von; Blue; Bonaparte, Napoléon; Bonnets; Bonny; Brave; Clans; Day; Deadly; Donald; Dour; Dukes; Exists in Composer-sanctioned Translation; Fighting; Frenchmen; Glinting; Gray; Grey; Highlands; Kilts; Knowing; Lads; Looking; May; Moon; News; Plaid; Rueing; Running; Saying; Scattering; Silver; Tartan; Telling; Trews (Trousers); Waterloo; Wellesley, Arthur, 1st Duke of Wellington
First LineWhere got ye that siller moon / Wem den Silbermond Ihr dankt (Search)
Average Duration1:30 (Search)
Year of composition 1815 (Search)
Larger Work25 Schottische Lieder (London/Edinburgh 1818, Berlin 1822) (Search)
Musical FormStrophic (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsRomanticism; Nationalism (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Scots dialect) (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/0cCbQ9aozrnB2dAhYSQS10
Catalog DesignationOp. 108, No. 07 (Search)
Complete Edition ReferenceBeethoven Werke (Henle, 1994-2014) 11/1, 34 (Search)
Range: C4 - F5 (Search)
Original KeyF Major (Search)
NotesPoet was widely known as the Ettrick Shepherd (Search)
Other instrumentation and voice(1818) Voice, Violin, Violoncello, Piano. (1822 includes Flute) (Search)
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