Antigone und Oedip

Song TitleAntigone und Oedip (Search)
Composer(s):Franz Schubert
Author(s):Johann Mayrhofer
Keyword(s) & Features: Ancestors; Ancient; Anger; Anxious; Asking; Assuaging; Breath; Breezes; Chasing; Children; Concern; Conversations; Daughters; Death; Defeat; Destroying; Devastated; Dissolving; Dreaming; Drinking; Duet; Dying; Earth; Ending; Families; Fate; Fathers; Fathers and Daughters; Fear; Firmament; Flourishing; Foam; Folding; Forces; Foreboding; Gods; Gold; Grass; Groaning; Groves; Halls; Hands; Hearts; Heavy; Helios; Heroes; Hope; Horns; Humility; Life; Light; Men; Multiple Speakers; Mythology; Nature; Pale; Pleading; Power; Prayers; Praying; Preparing; Pure; Remaining; Requests; Rustling; Satisfaction; Scepters; Sighing; Slumbering; Smooth; Solace; Songs; Souls; Speaking; Springing; Stillness; Suffering; Tepid; Trouble; Uneasy; Vengeance; Visions; Welding; Work; Worry; Worthless
First LineIhr hohen Himmlischen (Search)
Average Duration5:30 (Search)
Year of composition 1817 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttp://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=11015
Larger WorkDrei Lieder (Search)
Musical FormThrough-composed (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsBildung Circle (Search)
Original LanguageGerman (Search)
Score Source https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/9/93/IMSLP16217-SchubertD542_Antigone_und_Oedip.pdf
Audio Source https://open.spotify.com/track/6nXJgxN2fW3x18BYWiJqud
Catalog DesignationD. 542; Op. 6 no. 2 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerSoprano or Mezzo-soprano and Bass
Range: S: E4; B: G2 - S: G5; B: C4
Original KeyC Major (Search)
NotesPoet was a hypochondriac and committed sucide during a cholera epidemic (Search)
More Than One Voice?Duet (Search)
ContributorAL (Search)
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