The Lovely Lass of Inverness
Song record peer reviewed by Editorial Board member: Susan McDaniel| Song Title | The Lovely Lass of Inverness (Search) |
| Composer(s): | Ludwig van Beethoven |
| Author(s): | Robert Burns |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Alas; Battle of Culloden (April 16, 1746); Best; Blinding; Blood; Bloody; Brethren; Brothers; Burial Shrouds; Clay; Cruel; Crying; Day; Dearest; Death; Drumossie Moor; Evening; Exists in Composer-sanctioned Translation; Eyes; Fathers; Graves; Green; Grief; Growing; Hearts; Inverness; Jacobitism; Joy; Lads; Lasses; Lords; Lost; Lovely; Lying; Making; Many; Men; Moors; Morning; Never; Pleasure; Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland; Salt; Seeing; Sour; Swearing; Tears; Three; Woe; Woeful; Women; Wrong |
| First Line | The lovely lass of Inverness (Search) |
| Average Duration | 3:00 (Search) |
| Year of composition | 1816 (Search) |
| Larger Work | 25 Schottische Lieder (London/Edinburgh 1818, Berlin 1822) (Search) |
| Musical Form | Strophic (Search) |
| Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups | Romanticism; Liberalism; Socialism; National poet of Scotland; Scottish Makar tradition; Republicanism; Anticlericalism (Search) |
| Original Language | English (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/3km6gpvuE0EKxC2WmKCiBc |
| Catalog Designation | Op. 108, No. 08 (Search) |
| Complete Edition Reference | Beethoven Werke (Henle, 1994-2014) 11/1, 39 (Search) |
| Range: | C#4 - F5 (Search) |
| Original Key | D minor (Search) |
| Notes | National poet of Scotland (Search) |
| Other instrumentation and voice | (1818) Voice, Violin, Violoncello, Piano. (1822 includes Flute) (Search) |