The Miller of Dee
Song Title | The 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 Line | There was a jolly miller once (Search) |
Average Duration | 3:00 (Search) |
Year of composition | 1815 (Search) |
Link to English Text Online | www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=26314 |
Larger Work | 12 Songs of Various Nationalities (Search) |
Musical Form | Strophic (Search) |
Original Language | English (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 Designation | WoO 157 no. 5 (Search) |
Voice part suggested by composer | Soprano, Tenor, and Bass |
Range: | Soprano: G4; Tenor: G3; Bass: C3 - Soprano: G5; Tenor: G4; Bass: D4 |
Original Key | C minor (Search) |
Premiered By | (Search) |
Other instrumentation and voice | Voices, piano, violin, violoncello (Search) |
More Than One Voice? | Trio (Search) |
Contributor | AL (Search) |