Helpless Woman

Song TitleHelpless Woman (Search)
Composer(s):Ludwig van Beethoven
Author(s):Robert Burns
Keyword(s) & Features: Birds; Cruel; Cruelty; Daughters; Despairing; Doves; Dropping; Escape; Falconers; Families; Fathers; Flying; Hapless; Hate; Hawks; Helpless; Helplessness; Metaphor; Parents; Personification: Birds; Personification: Doves; Pinions; Poor; Prizing; Pursuing; Retreats; Riches; Ruin; Ruthless; Sacrificing; Shelter; Shunning; Strife; Trembling; Trusting; Tyrants; Wealth; Wealthy; Wives; Women; Wretched
First LineHow cruel are the parents who riches only prize (Search)
Average Duration2:00 (Search)
Year of composition 1817 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinewww.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=26667
Larger Work26 Welsh Songs (Search)
Musical FormStrophic (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsRomanticism; Liberalism; Socialism; National poet of Scotland; Scottish Makar tradition; Republicanism; Anticlericalism (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Score Source https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/d/d6/IMSLP59179-PMLP121424-Beethoven_-_26_Wallisische_Lieder_Voice_(Piano_Trio)_Violin_Cello_Piano_score.pdf
Audio Source https://open.spotify.com/track/125VmSTCtONvLEyBN1QeMl?si=t3MUxWRvR3yeoXUKhyi0rA
Catalog DesignationWoO 155 no. 13 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerSoprano
Range: E4 - F#5 (Search)
Original KeyA Major (Search)
Premiered By (Search)
NotesCommissioned by publisher George Thomson; National poet of Scotland (Search)
Other instrumentation and voiceVoice, piano, violin, violoncello (Search)
ContributorGTM (Search)
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