| Song Title | When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see (Search)
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| Composer(s): | Benjamin Britten |
| Composer Underrepresented Group | LGBTQ+ (Search) |
| Author(s): | William Shakespeare |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Addressee: Lover; Admiration; Blessed; Bright; Clear; Dark; Day; Dead; Directing; Dreaming; Dreams; Eyes; Fair; Forming; Forms; Happy; Heavy; Imperfect; Light; Living; Looking; Love; Metaphor: Love as Day; Metaphor: Love as Light; Night; Nocturne; Part of a Song Cycle; Seeing; Shades; Shadows; Shining; Showing; Sightless; Sleep; Sleeping; Sonnet; Unrespected; Unseeing; Viewing; Visions; Winking |
| First Line | When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see (Search) |
| Average Duration | 4:00 (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 | Through-composed (Search) |
| Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups | Elizabethan poetry and drama (Search) |
| Original Language | English (Search) |
| Audio Source |
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Owr4flHRmf0Yl71x6n0J8
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| Catalog Designation | Op. 60 no. 8 (Search) |
| Voice part suggested by composer | Tenor |
| Range: | Db3 - Ab4 (Search) |
| Original Key | C 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 flute, English horn, clarinet, bassoon, French horn, harp and timpani obbligato (Search) |
| Contributor | GTM (Search)
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