Life in her creaking shoes
Song Title | Life in her creaking shoes (Search) |
Composer(s): | George Butterworth |
Author(s): | William Ernest Henley |
Keyword(s) & Features: | Arriving; Blowing; Cadences; Calls; Coming; Creaking; Dew; Fickle; Flowing; Going; Growing; Hearts; Life; Love; Metaphor: Love as Wind; Mortals; Passage of Time; Quiet; Rivers; Roaring; Round; Shoes; Spirits; Stars; Wind |
First Line | Life in her creaking shoes goes (Search) |
Average Duration | 2:15 (Search) |
Year of composition | 1911 - 1912 (Search) |
Link to English Text Online | http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=7849 |
Larger Work | Love Blows as the Wind Blows (Search) |
Musical Form | Modified strophic (Search) |
Original Language | English (Search) |
Score Source | https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/1/16/IMSLP405017-PMLP655890-Butterworth_Love_Blows_as_the_Wind_Blows.pdf |
Audio Source | https://open.spotify.com/track/2AiBLbbW7eyjRZrs9xdYBP |
Catalog Designation | Love Blows as the Wind Blows, no. 2 (Search) |
Range: | C4 - E5 (Search) |
Original Key | A minor (Search) |
Orchestra and voice? | Yes (Search) |
Other instrumentation and voice | Voice and string quartet (Search) |
Contributor | JEM (Search) |