| Song Title | Behold my Love how Green the Groves (Search)
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| Composer(s): | Ludwig van Beethoven |
| Author(s): | Robert Burns |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Addressee: Lover; Balmy; Beauty; Behold; Birdsong; Blonde; Bosoms; Breasts; Cottages; Courtiers; Courtship; Dancing; Declarations of Love; Doubtfulness; Duet; Equality; Exists in Composer-sanctioned Translation; Fair; Flaxen; Flowers; Flowery; Gales; Gems; Genuineness; Gifts; Glens; Green; Groves; Hair; Harps; Hearts; Joy; Kings; Larks; Light; Love; Lyres; Milk-white; Minstrels; Music; Nature; Palaces; Personification: Nature; Phrases; Picking; Pipes; Poverty; Primroses; Princely; Privileges; Pulling; Reeds; Reveling; Revels; Rustic; Scorn; Scottish Dialect; Shepherds; Simple; Skillful; Social Class; Strings; Tales; Telling; Thorns; True; Wealth; Wild; Wind; Witnessing; Woodlands; Woods; Wooing |
| First Line | Behold my love how green the groves/Schau her, mein Lieb, der Wälder Grün (Search) |
| Average Duration | 2:30 (Search) |
| Year of composition |
1817 (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 (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
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| Audio Source |
https://open.spotify.com/track/6thwNmA8VCdYkgT6J1NZcB
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| Catalog Designation | Op. 108, No. 09 (Search) |
| Complete Edition Reference | Beethoven Werke (Henle, 1994-2014) 11/1, 44 (Search) |
| Range: | Eb4 - G5 (Search) |
| Original Key | Eb Major (Search) |
| Notes | National poet of Scotland; First voice Eb4-G5, Second voice D4-Bb4 (Search) |
| Other instrumentation and voice | (1818) 2 voices, Violin, Violoncello, Piano. (1822 includes Flute) (Search) |
| More Than One Voice? | Duet (Search) |
| Sources Cited | http://www.dsl.ac.uk (Search) |
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