Helpless Woman
Song Title | Helpless 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 Line | How cruel are the parents who riches only prize (Search) |
Average Duration | 2:00 (Search) |
Year of composition | 1817 (Search) |
Link to English Text Online | www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=26667 |
Larger Work | 26 Welsh Songs (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/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 Designation | WoO 155 no. 13 (Search) |
Voice part suggested by composer | Soprano |
Range: | E4 - F#5 (Search) |
Original Key | A Major (Search) |
Premiered By | (Search) |
Notes | Commissioned by publisher George Thomson; National poet of Scotland (Search) |
Other instrumentation and voice | Voice, piano, violin, violoncello (Search) |
Contributor | GTM (Search) |