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Philoket
Song Title
Philoket (
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Composer(s):
Franz Schubert
Author(s):
Johann Mayrhofer
Keyword(s) & Features:
Anger
;
Arms
;
Asking
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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 Line
Da sitz’ ich ohne Bogen (
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Average Duration
2:15 (
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Year of composition
1817 (
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Link to English Text Online
http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=11011
Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups
Bildung Circle (
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Original Language
German (
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Score Source
https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/4/4f/IMSLP16215-SchubertD540_Philoktet.pdf
Catalog Designation
D. 540 (
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Range:
B3 - Eb5 (
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Original Key
B minor (
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Notes
Poet was a hypochondriac and committed sucide during a cholera epidemic (
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