Salome

Song TitleSalome (Search)
Composer(s):Johannes Brahms
Author(s):Gottfried Keller
Keyword(s) & Features: Animals; Beautiful; Country; Couples; Fame; Finches; Fire; Foxes; Future; Imagination; Love; Lovers; Men; Metaphor: Love as Sword; Metaphor: Lover as Bird; Metaphor: Lover as Finch; Metaphor: Lover as Fox; Metaphor: Speaker as Bird; Metaphor: Speaker as Nightingale; Metaphor: Speaker as Snake; Mountains; Music; Nightingales; Playmates; Potential Love; Proud; Salome; Seas; Singing; Snakes; Songs; Swords; Virgins; Wealth; Worry
First LineSingt mein Schatz wie ein Fink (Search)
Average Duration1:45 (Search)
Year of composition 1877 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttps://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=9247
Larger WorkNeun Gesänge (Search)
Musical FormStrophic (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsLiterary realism (Search)
Original LanguageGerman (Search)
Audio Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHDOoIieDr8
Link to IPA Source https://www.ipasource.com/product/salome/
Catalog DesignationOp. 69 no. 8 (Search)
Range: G4 - G5 (Search)
Original KeyC Major (Search)
ContributorAL (Search)
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