The old strain

Song TitleThe old strain (Search)
Composer(s):Ludwig van Beethoven
Author(s):William Smyth
Keyword(s) & Features: Aware; Battles; Beguiling; Brave; Churches; Cold; Comfort; Consciousness; Conversation; Couples; Cures; Distance; Ease; Enduring; Evening; Fighting; Following; Happiness; Haste; Heartache; Helping; Home; Homesickness; Hours; Impatience; Kissing; Lasting; Leaving; Leaving Home; Love; Memories; Missing; Nodding; Obligation; Old; Parting; Past; Patience; Peace; Pleasant; Remembering; Reminiscing; River Dee; Scenes; Separation; Short; Sickness; Sighing; Smiling; Soldiers; Strains; Strength; Sue; Summer; Sweet; Thinking; Thoughts; Tom; Waiting; Wales; Walking; Wars; Weariness
First LineMy pleasant home beside the Dee! (Search)
Average Duration3:30 (Search)
Year of composition 1817 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttp://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=24691
Larger Work26 Welsh Songs (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/d/d6/IMSLP59179-PMLP121424-Beethoven_-_26_Wallisische_Lieder_Voice_(Piano_Trio)_Violin_Cello_Piano_score.pdf
Audio Source https://open.spotify.com/track/2s6NCIecNt2gJCNeHQoFZL?si=lFBLZ1m9SgeF_TNMS98a-g
Catalog DesignationWoO 155 no. 23 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerSoprano
Range: C#4 - D5 (Search)
Original KeyD Major (Search)
Premiered By (Search)
NotesCommissioned by publisher George Thomson. Poet was a Cambridge history professor (Search)
Other instrumentation and voiceVoice, piano, violin, violoncello (Search)
ContributorAL (Search)
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