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Seascape
Song record
peer reviewed
by Editorial Board member: Jacquelyn Matava
Song Title
Seascape (
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Composer(s):
Benjamin Britten
Composer Underrepresented Group
LGBTQ+ (
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Author(s):
W. H. Auden (Wystan Hugh)
Author Underrepresented Group
LGBTQ+ (
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Keyword(s) & Features:
Calm
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Chalk
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Channels
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Clouds
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Delight
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Discovering
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Diverging
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Ears
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Ending
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Entering
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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
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Passing
;
Pausing
;
Peace
;
Plucks
;
Rivers
;
Sauntering
;
Scrambling
;
Seagulls
;
Seas
;
Seascapes
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Seeds
;
Sheer
;
Shingles
;
Ships
;
Silent
;
Small
;
Sounds
;
Stable
;
Standing
;
Strangers
;
Sucking
;
Summer
;
Surf
;
Swaying
;
Tall
;
Tides
;
Urgent
;
Views
;
Voluntary
;
Walls
;
Wandering
;
Water
First Line
Look, stranger, at this island now (
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Average Duration
2:30 (
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Year of composition
1937 (
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Link to English Text Online
https://www.oxfordlieder.co.uk/song/181
Larger Work
On This Island (
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Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups
Modernism; Socialism (
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Original Language
English (
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Audio Source
https://open.spotify.com/track/6sIFgdCVx1pmTiEKdD8EBA
Catalog Designation
Op. 11 no. 3 (
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Voice part suggested by composer
High voice
Range:
C4 - Ab5 (
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Original Key
C Major (
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Recommended Printed Source
https://www.boosey.com/cr/music/Benjamin-Britten-On-this-Island/5971
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