Polly Stewart

Song TitlePolly Stewart (Search)
Composer(s):Ludwig van Beethoven
Author(s):Robert Burns
Keyword(s) & Features: Admiring; Art; Beauty; Beauty Without Equal; Blooming; Charms; Comparisons; Courting; Envy; Eternal; Fading; Fair; Flowers; Girls; Giving; Heaven; Immortality; Lovely; May; Nature; Polly; Polly Stewart; Praising; Renewing; Stewart; Truth; Winning; Women; Worth; Worthy; Youth
First LineO lovely Polly Stewart (Search)
Average Duration1:45 (Search)
Year of composition 1818 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinewww.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=27430
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/5Sip2c9qH29O6Buims403T?si=ZZvRieIlR-eQj9pPT4BLaw
Catalog DesignationWoO 156 no. 7 (Search)
Range: D4 - G5 (Search)
Original KeyBb Major (Search)
Premiered By (Search)
NotesNational poet of Scotland (Search)
Other instrumentation and voiceVoice, piano, violin, violoncello (Search)
ContributorAL (Search)
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