Motion and Stillness

Song TitleMotion and Stillness (Search)
Composer(s):Ralph Vaughan Williams
Author(s):Fredegond Shove
Author Underrepresented GroupWoman (Search)
Keyword(s) & Features: Clouds; Cows; Death; Eternal; Hope; Landscapes; Lullaby; Melancholy; Motion; Nature; Oceans; Rocking; Seas; Seashells; Shells; Ships; Tranquil; Vanishing; Water
First LineThe seashells lie as cold as death (Search)
Average Duration1:45 (Search)
Year of composition 1922 (Search) Circa
Link to English Text Onlinehttp://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=22920
Larger Work4 Poems by Fredegond Shove (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsBloomsbury Group (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Score Source https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/a/ac/IMSLP134563-PMLP259074-Vaughan_Williams_-_Four_Poems_by_Fredegond_Shove.pdf
Audio Source https://open.spotify.com/track/5jGUOH613FnXVEJqBrWMVh
Catalog Designation4 Poems by Fredegond Shove, no. 1 (Search)
Range: C4 - D5 (Search)
Original KeyC Major (Search)
Recommended Printed Sourcehttps://www.worldcat.org/title/four-poems-by-fredegond-shove/oclc/22902090&referer=brief_results (Search)
ContributorJEM (Search)
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