The fair Maid of Mona
Song Title | The fair Maid of Mona (Search) |
Composer(s): | Ludwig van Beethoven |
Author(s): | William Smyth |
Keyword(s) & Features: | Abandoning; Accusing; Alone; Anguish; Betrayal; Bliss; Complaining; Cruelty; Discovering; Doubts; Ended Relationships; Fair; Forgiveness; Forsaking; Fortune; Grief; Heartbreak; Hearts; Life; Lonely; Losing; Love; Lovers; Maids; Mary; Measures; Mistakes; Mona; Pleasure; Rashness; Sighing; Surprise; Thinking; Understanding; Unfaithfulness; Unkindness; Vanity; Waste |
First Line | How, my love, could hapless doubts (Search) |
Average Duration | 3:00 (Search) |
Year of composition | 1817 (Search) |
Link to English Text Online | www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=26660 |
Larger Work | 26 Welsh Songs (Search) |
Musical Form | Strophic (Search) |
Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups | Whiggism (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/7rdx5BJGc9ouzBXaIrAaK7?si=7h-jzOQnRYG5iukoVgePkw |
Catalog Designation | WoO 155 no. 6 (Search) |
Voice part suggested by composer | Soprano |
Range: | F4 - G5 (Search) |
Original Key | F Major (Search) |
Premiered By | (Search) |
Notes | Commissioned by publisher George Thomson; Poet was a Cambridge history professor (Search) |
Other instrumentation and voice | Voice, piano, violin, violoncello (Search) |