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La perla
Song Title
La perla (
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Composer(s):
Franz Liszt
Author(s):
Thérèse de Hohenlohe
Author Underrepresented Group
Woman (
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Keyword(s) & Features:
Air
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Bearing
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Beauty
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Breasts
;
Breathing
;
Breezes
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Captivity
;
Caressing
;
Crowns
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Dark
;
Daughters
;
Delight
;
Enclosing
;
Exile
;
Eyes
;
Faces
;
Finery
;
Force
;
Freedom
;
Jewelry
;
Light
;
Love
;
Markets
;
Metaphor: Pearl as Tear
;
Metaphor: Seashell as Mother
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Metaphor: Seashell as Prison
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Mothers
;
Pain
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Painless
;
Pearls
;
Personification: Pearl
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Prisons
;
Safe
;
Seafloor
;
Seas
;
Seeing
;
Selling
;
Shells
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Shining
;
Sighing
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Solitude
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Tears
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Thorns
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Water
First Line
Sono del mare bianca la figlia (
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Average Duration
5:30 (
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Year of composition
1872 (
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Link to English Text Online
http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=649216
Musical Form
Through-composed (
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Original Language
Italian (
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Score Source
https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/0/02/IMSLP04928-Liszt_-_S326_Die_Perle.pdf
Audio Source
https://open.spotify.com/track/75se2qLtFXaB3aUMOaKx4T
Catalog Designation
S. 326 (
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Voice part suggested by composer
Mezzo-soprano
Range:
B#4 - E#5 (
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Original Key
A Major (
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Notes
Also set in German with a text by Theobald Rehbaum. (
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Contributor
GTM (
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