Highlander's Lament
| Song Title | Highlander's Lament (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 Line | My Harry was a galant gay (Search) |
| Average Duration | 4:15 (Search) |
| Year of composition | 1815 (Search) |
| Link to English Text Online | www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=26321 |
| Larger Work | 12 Songs of Various Nationalities (Search) |
| Musical Form | Strophic (Search) |
| Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups | Romanticism; Liberalism; Socialism; National poet of Scotland; Scottish Makar tradition; Republicanism; Anticlericalism (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/1l8snZeSCnY25wARd8ZIH5?si=NvjwwV2PTfqHxmS_JtA8xw |
| Catalog Designation | WoO 157 no. 9 (Search) |
| Voice part suggested by composer | Soprano, Tenor, and Bass |
| Range: | Solo: D4 - Solo: G5 |
| Original Key | E minor (Search) |
| Premiered By | (Search) |
| Notes | National poet of Scotland (Search) |
| Other instrumentation and voice | Voices, piano, violin, violoncello (Search) |
| More Than One Voice? | Solo & 3-part chorus (Search) |