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The old strain
Song Title
The old strain (
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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
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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
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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 Line
My pleasant home beside the Dee! (
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Average Duration
3:30 (
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Year of composition
1817 (
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Link to English Text Online
http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=24691
Larger Work
26 Welsh Songs (
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Musical Form
Strophic (
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Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups
Whiggism (
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Original Language
English (
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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 Designation
WoO 155 no. 23 (
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Voice part suggested by composer
Soprano
Range:
C#4 - D5 (
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Original Key
D Major (
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Premiered By
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Notes
Commissioned by publisher George Thomson. Poet was a Cambridge history professor (
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Other instrumentation and voice
Voice, piano, violin, violoncello (
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Contributor
AL (
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