Below the thunders of the upper deep

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Song TitleBelow the thunders of the upper deep (Search)
Composer(s):Benjamin Britten
Composer Underrepresented GroupLGBTQ+ (Search)
Author(s):Lord Alfred Tennyson
Keyword(s) & Features: Above; Abysmal; Ancient; Angels; Arms; Battening; Beneath; Cells; Deeps; Depths; Dreamless; Dying; Enormous; Faint; Far; Far away; Fire; Fleeing; Giant; Green; Grots; Grottos; Growth; Heating; Height; Huge; Krakens; Legends; Light; Lying; Men; Millenial; Monsters; Myths; Nocturne; Oceans; Part of a Song Cycle; Polyps; Rising; Roaring; Sea monsters; Seas; Seasponges; Seaworms; Secret; Shadowy; Sickly; Sides; Sleep; Sleeping; Slumbering; Sonnet; Sunlight; Surface; Swelling; Thunder; Unnumbered; Winnowing; Wondrous
First LineBelow the thunders of the upper deep (Search)
Average Duration3:15 (Search)
Year of composition 1958 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttp://www.lieder.net/lieder/assemble_texts.html?SongCycleId=73
Larger WorkNocturne, op. 60 (Search)
Musical FormModified ternary (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsMedievalism; Victorian (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Audio Source https://open.spotify.com/track/4PXV4vy1BcIZFEiEtoBU64
Catalog DesignationOp. 60 no. 2 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerTenor
Range: Db3 - Bb4 (Search)
Original KeyBb minor (Search)
Dedicated ToAlma Mahler (Search)
Premiered ByPeter Pears (Search)
NotesFirst performance October 16, 1958, Leeds Centenary Festival, BBC Symphony Orchstra conducted by Rudolf Schwartz (Search)
Recommended Printed Sourcehttps://www.boosey.com/cr/music/Benjamin-Britten-Nocturne/6788 (Search)
Other instrumentation and voiceString orchestra with bassoon obbligato (Search)
ContributorGTM (Search)
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