The fair Maid of Mona

Song TitleThe 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 LineHow, my love, could hapless doubts (Search)
Average Duration3:00 (Search)
Year of composition 1817 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinewww.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=26660
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/7rdx5BJGc9ouzBXaIrAaK7?si=7h-jzOQnRYG5iukoVgePkw
Catalog DesignationWoO 155 no. 6 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerSoprano
Range: F4 - G5 (Search)
Original KeyF 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)
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