La paloma

Song TitleLa paloma (Search)
Composer(s):Sebastián de Iradier [Yradier]
Author(s):Sebastián de Iradier [Yradier]
Keyword(s) & Features: Affection; Beautiful; Birds; Blessings; Cathedrals; Catholicism; Children; Churches; Composer is Poet; Crowning; Cuba; Doves; Flowers; Frenzy; Future; God; Going; Guachinango; Habanera; Hands; Havana; Laughing; Leaving; Love; Love Song; Marriage; Marrying; Metaphor: Speaker as Bird; Metaphor: Speaker as Dove; Mexico; Personification: Doves; Priests; Sleeping; Sprinkling; Together; True Love; Weddings; Windows; Young Love
First LineCuando sali de la Habana (Search)
Average Duration5:00 (Search)
Year of composition 1850 - 1859 (Search) Circa
Link to English Text Onlinehttp://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=1286139
Musical FormStrophic (Search)
Original LanguageSpanish (Search)
Score Source https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/8/84/IMSLP47376-PMLP100689-La_Paloma.pdf
Audio Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUFYBpF1mW8
Link to IPA Source https://www.ipasource.com/product/la-paloma-2/
Voice part suggested by composerMedium/Low voice
Range: G3 - F5 (Search)
Original KeyC Major (Search)
NotesThis song is one of the most popular and most-recorded in history. Iradier also composed the melody on which Bizet's Carmen "Habanera" is based. (Search)
ContributorAL; GTM (Search)
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