Twilight
Song Title | Twilight (Search) |
Composer(s): | Sir Edward Elgar |
Author(s): | Sir Gilbert Parker |
Keyword(s) & Features: | Adieu; Bending; Broken; Clear; Contemplation; Creeping; Crimson; Death; Dusk; End; Ending; Eyes; Folding; Goodbye; Lilies; Love; Meaning; Meaning of Life; Mists; Night; Old; One Octave or Less; Past; Reaping; Right; Sails; Sleepy; Songs; Stains; Strife; Sun; Sunset; Time; Towns; Twilight; Veils; Weary; White; Wrong; Years |
First Line | Adieu! and the sun goes awearily down, (Search) |
Average Duration | 2:45 (Search) |
Year of composition | 1910 (Search) |
Link to English Text Online | http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=12460 |
Larger Work | Three Songs, Op. 59 (Search) |
Musical Form | Modified strophic (Search) |
Original Language | English (Search) |
Score Source | https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/c/cf/IMSLP263319-PMLP426884-twilight.pdf |
Audio Source | https://open.spotify.com/track/0naf3Wa8pCSTWAo31h0mYD |
Catalog Designation | Op. 59 no. 6 (Search) |
Range: | E4 - D5 (Search) |
Original Key | B minor (Search) |
Premiered By | Muriel Foster (Search) |
Notes | From Parker's "The Twilight of Love" in Embers (Search) |
Orchestra and voice? | Yes (Search) |
Contributor | GTM (Search) |