The moon
| Song Title | The moon (Search) |
| Composer(s): | Paul Hindemith |
| Author(s): | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Alone; Arising; Birth; Brains; Chambers; Changing; Climbing; Constancy; Dying; East; Fading; Feeble; Gazing; Heaven; Insane; Joyless; Ladies; Lean; Metaphor: Moon as Eye; Metaphor: Moon as Woman; Moon; Murky; Night; One Octave or Less; Pale; Personification: Moon; Shapeless; Sky; Stars; Veils; Wandering; Weary; White |
| First Line | And, like a dying lady, lean and pale, (Search) |
| Average Duration | 2:45 (Search) |
| Year of composition | 1942 (Search) |
| Link to English Text Online | http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=14936 |
| Larger Work | 9 English Songs (Search) |
| Musical Form | Through-composed (Search) |
| Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups | Romanticism (Search) |
| Original Language | English (Search) |
| Score Source | https://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ReverseLookup/327695 |
| Audio Source | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBRUvFBXaUk |
| Catalog Designation | no. 3 (Search) |
| Voice part suggested by composer | Soprano or Mezzo-soprano |
| Range: | D#4 - Eb5 (Search) |
| Dedicated To | "Meinem liebsten und verehrtesten Kunstgenossen zu Weihnachten (Echo)" (Search) |
| Recommended Printed Source | Schott & Co. Ltd, London (Associated Music Publishers Inc., New York) 1945 (Search) |
| Contributor | GTM (Search) |