Land of heart's desire
Song Title | Land of heart's desire (Search) |
Composer(s): | Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser (arr.) |
Composer Underrepresented Group | Woman (Search) |
Author(s): | Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser (after Traditional) |
Author Underrepresented Group | Woman (Search) |
Keyword(s) & Features: | Blue; Cloudless; Composer is Poet; Desires; Dreaming; Far; Folk Song; Free; Gaelic; Gleaming; Green; Hearts; Hebrides; Idyllic; Islands; Isles; Lands; Paradise; Pleasure; Sand; Scotland; Sky; Starlight; Stretching; Sunlight; Wandering; Western; White; Youth |
First Line | Land o' Heart's Desire, Isle of Youth (Search) |
Average Duration | 2:45 (Search) |
Year of composition | 1916 (Search) Circa |
Link to English Text Online | http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=1286366 |
Larger Work | Songs of the Hebrides, Vol. II (Search) |
Musical Form | Modified strophic (Search) |
Original Language | English (Search) |
Score Source | https://www.worldcat.org/title/twelve-selected-songs-of-the-hebrides-from-volume-ii/oclc/228655754&referer=brief_results |
Audio Source | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z04wJH8htY |
Voice part suggested by composer | Medium/Low voice |
Range: | Bb3 - Eb5 (Search) |
Original Key | Eb Major (Search) |
Notes | Boosey & Hawkes edition of Songs of the Hebrides gives the spelling of Kennedy-Fraser's first name as "Marjory" (Search) |
Contributor | GTM (Search) |