Oh! Thou Art the Lad of my Heart

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Song TitleOh! Thou Art the Lad of my Heart (Search)
Composer(s):Ludwig van Beethoven
Author(s):William Smyth
Keyword(s) & Features: All; Alone; Apostrophe; Assurance; Birdsong; Bliss; Blithesome; Bounding; Cheer; Clouds; Coming; Courtship; Doubts; Echoing; Evening; Ever; Exists in Composer-sanctioned Translation; Eyes; Fear; Fluttering; Glee; Gratitude; Hearing; Hearts; Hope; Hours; Lads; Larks; Lasses; Life; Light; Little; Love; Maids; Mates; Merry; Mutual Love; Nervousness; Nests; Oft; Parting; Past; Paths; Pausing; Proud; Rapture; Recounting; Relieving; Rosy; Sauntering; Seeing; Soaring; Soft; Songs; Speaker: Woman/Feminine; Standing; Steps; Sweet; Telling; Thinking; Trying; Voices; Vows; Will; Willy; Winning; Wood
First LineOh! Thou art the lad of my heart (Search)
Average Duration2:00 (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 GroupsWhiggism (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/4ElQKvDGENcrdGWBFcBFZF
Catalog DesignationOp. 108, No. 11 (Search)
Complete Edition ReferenceBeethoven Werke (Henle, 1994-2014) 11/1, 55 (Search)
Range: Eb4 - Eb5 (Search)
Original KeyEb Major (Search)
NotesPoet was a Cambridge history professor (Search)
Other instrumentation and voice(1818) Voice, Violin, Violoncello, Piano. (1822 includes Flute) (Search)
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