Seascape

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Song TitleSeascape (Search)
Composer(s):Benjamin Britten
Composer Underrepresented GroupLGBTQ+ (Search)
Author(s):W. H. Auden (Wystan Hugh)
Author Underrepresented GroupLGBTQ+ (Search)
Keyword(s) & Features: Calm; Chalk; Channels; Clouds; Delight; Discovering; Diverging; Ears; Ending; Entering; Errands; Falling; Fields; Floating; Foam; Gulls; Harbors; Islands; Isolation; Knocks; Landscapes; Leaping; Ledges; Light; Lodging; Memory; Mirrors; Moments; Moving; Natural; Natural Beauty; Nature; Oceans; Opposing; Part of a Song Cycle; Passing; Pausing; Peace; Plucks; Rivers; Sauntering; Scrambling; Seagulls; Seas; Seascapes; Seeds; Sheer; Shingles; Ships; Silent; Small; Sounds; Stable; Standing; Strangers; Sucking; Summer; Surf; Swaying; Tall; Tides; Urgent; Views; Voluntary; Walls; Wandering; Water
First LineLook, stranger, at this island now (Search)
Average Duration2:30 (Search)
Year of composition 1937 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttps://www.oxfordlieder.co.uk/song/181
Larger WorkOn This Island (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsModernism; Socialism (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Audio Source https://open.spotify.com/track/6sIFgdCVx1pmTiEKdD8EBA
Catalog DesignationOp. 11 no. 3 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerHigh voice
Range: C4 - Ab5 (Search)
Original KeyC Major (Search)
Recommended Printed Sourcehttps://www.boosey.com/cr/music/Benjamin-Britten-On-this-Island/5971 (Search)
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