Highland Harry

Song TitleHighland Harry (Search)
Composer(s):Ludwig van Beethoven
Author(s):Robert Burns
Keyword(s) & Features: Anticipation; Banishing; Beds; Bodies; Desires; Distance; Gallant; Gay; Glens; Greeting; Hanging; Harry; Highlanders; Highlands; Joy; Laments; Longing; Love; Missing; Plains; Returning; Reunions; Separation; Solitude; Villains; Waiting; Walking; Wandering; Wishing
First LineMy Harry was a galant gay (Search)
Average Duration2:00 (Search)
Year of composition 1818 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinewww.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=26321
Larger Work12 Scottish Songs (Search)
Musical FormStrophic (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsRomanticism; Liberalism; Socialism; National poet of Scotland; Scottish Makar tradition; Republicanism; Anticlericalism (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Score Source https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/6/6f/IMSLP320140-PMLP121356-LvBeethoven_12_Schottische_Lieder,_WoO_156_BH_Werke_score.pdf
Audio Source https://open.spotify.com/track/0StZIkhIy510BrK90HuSmM?si=rKhxAUx0Q0S7pDsxJnpwtQ
Catalog DesignationWoO 156 no. 6 (Search)
Range: D4 - G5 (Search)
Original KeyD Major (Search)
Premiered By (Search)
NotesNational poet of Scotland (Search)
Other instrumentation and voiceVoice, piano, violin, violoncello (Search)
ContributorAL (Search)
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