Below the thunders of the upper deep
Song record peer reviewed by Editorial Board member: Jacquelyn MatavaSong Title | Below the thunders of the upper deep (Search) |
Composer(s): | Benjamin Britten |
Composer Underrepresented Group | LGBTQ+ (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 Line | Below the thunders of the upper deep (Search) |
Average Duration | 3:15 (Search) |
Year of composition | 1958 (Search) |
Link to English Text Online | http://www.lieder.net/lieder/assemble_texts.html?SongCycleId=73 |
Larger Work | Nocturne, op. 60 (Search) |
Musical Form | Modified ternary (Search) |
Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups | Medievalism; Victorian (Search) |
Original Language | English (Search) |
Audio Source | https://open.spotify.com/track/4PXV4vy1BcIZFEiEtoBU64 |
Catalog Designation | Op. 60 no. 2 (Search) |
Voice part suggested by composer | Tenor |
Range: | Db3 - Bb4 (Search) |
Original Key | Bb minor (Search) |
Dedicated To | Alma Mahler (Search) |
Premiered By | Peter Pears (Search) |
Notes | First performance October 16, 1958, Leeds Centenary Festival, BBC Symphony Orchstra conducted by Rudolf Schwartz (Search) |
Recommended Printed Source | https://www.boosey.com/cr/music/Benjamin-Britten-Nocturne/6788 (Search) |
Other instrumentation and voice | String orchestra with bassoon obbligato (Search) |
Contributor | GTM (Search) |