Philoket

Song TitlePhiloket (Search)
Composer(s):Franz Schubert
Author(s):Johann Mayrhofer
Keyword(s) & Features: Anger; Arms; Asking; Betrayal; Birds; Bitterness; Bows; Brown; Bushes; Crafty; Death; Desolate; Empty; Fear; Flocks; Gazing; Giving; Goddesses; Grey; Harbingers; Heads; Hunting; Islands; Kings; Legends; Mythology; Nemesis; Philoctetes; Pity; Providing; Questioning; Reaching; Requesting; Rushing; Sand; Sitting; Speeding; Stags; Staring; Stealing; Stories; Stretching; Surviving; Sustaining; Theft; Thick; Trojans; Ulysses; Vain; Vengeful; Warfare; Weapons
First LineDa sitz’ ich ohne Bogen (Search)
Average Duration2:15 (Search)
Year of composition 1817 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttp://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=11011
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsBildung Circle (Search)
Original LanguageGerman (Search)
Score Source https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/4/4f/IMSLP16215-SchubertD540_Philoktet.pdf
Catalog DesignationD. 540 (Search)
Range: B3 - Eb5 (Search)
Original KeyB minor (Search)
NotesPoet was a hypochondriac and committed sucide during a cholera epidemic (Search)
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