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The Elfin Fairies
Song Title
The Elfin Fairies (
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Composer(s):
Ludwig van Beethoven
Author(s):
David Thomson
Keyword(s) & Features:
Air
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Bending
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Blades
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Breasts
;
Business
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Calling
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Celebrations
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Clear
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Contriving
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Cynthia
;
Dancing
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Dawn
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Day
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Dells
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Drinking
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Earth
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Easy
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Elves
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Enjoyment
;
Eyes
;
Fairies
;
Fear
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Feasts
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Feet
;
Filling
;
Fleeting
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Flowers
;
Flying
;
Gathering
;
Globes
;
Goblets
;
High
;
Home
;
Invitations
;
Lawns
;
Legends
;
Light
;
Lilies
;
Magic
;
Meadows
;
Mortal
;
Mushrooms
;
Mythology
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Nectar
;
Night
;
Pliant
;
Preparing
;
Queens
;
Resting
;
Roaming
;
Secrets
;
Shaking
;
Singing
;
Sinking
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Sky
;
Sleeping
;
Spells
;
Stalks
;
Stories
;
Straying
;
Sweet
;
Traveling
;
Velvet
;
Wandering
;
Winning
First Line
We fairy elves in secret dells (
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Average Duration
2:00 (
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Year of composition
1812 - 1813
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Link to English Text Online
http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=25682
Larger Work
12 Irish Songs (
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Musical Form
Strophic (
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Original Language
English (
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Score Source
https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/e/e2/IMSLP53180-PMLP106771-Beethoven_Werke_Breitkopf_Serie_24_No_258_12_Irische_Lieder_WoO_154.pdf
Audio Source
https://open.spotify.com/track/5412NhR1GXgxSXzLeNmxxC?si=RiAwj0BLS5GsYGM9DKwt9A
Catalog Designation
WoO 154 no. 1 (
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Range:
D4 - F#5 (
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Original Key
D Major (
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Premiered By
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Notes
Poet - brother of publisher George Thomson (
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Other instrumentation and voice
Voices, piano, violin, violoncello (
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More Than One Voice?
Solo voice & harmony (
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Contributor
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