The Miller of Dee

Song TitleThe Miller of Dee (Search)
Composer(s):Ludwig van Beethoven
Author(s):Traditional
Keyword(s) & Features: Bachelors; Blithe; Bread; Burdens; Cans; Caring; Companions; Company; Contentment; Debts; Drinking; Earning; Eating; Eerie; Envy; Examples; Explaining; Fear; Folk Song; Glee; Gold; Hands; Happiness; Jolly; Larks; Legends; Life; Malice; Merry; Millers; Morning; Neighbors; Night; Parable; Reasons; Recounting; River Dee; Serving; Simplicity; Singing; Solitude; Songs; Stories; Trio; Work
First LineThere was a jolly miller once (Search)
Average Duration3:00 (Search)
Year of composition 1815 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinewww.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=26314
Larger Work12 Songs of Various Nationalities (Search)
Musical FormStrophic (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Score Source https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/c/ce/IMSLP53231-PMLP106774-Beethoven_Werke_Breitkopf_Serie_24_No_259_12_Volkslieder_WoO_157.pdf
Audio Source https://open.spotify.com/track/3MIr4IboteKsTW22PwUGNR?si=0XDh42BORcyy0rpyEHMDHg
Catalog DesignationWoO 157 no. 5 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerSoprano, Tenor, and Bass
Range: Soprano: G4; Tenor: G3; Bass: C3 - Soprano: G5; Tenor: G4; Bass: D4
Original KeyC minor (Search)
Premiered By (Search)
Other instrumentation and voiceVoices, piano, violin, violoncello (Search)
More Than One Voice?Trio (Search)
ContributorAL (Search)
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