The Foggy, Foggy Dew
Song Title | The Foggy, Foggy Dew (Search) |
Composer(s): | Benjamin Britten (arr.) |
Composer Underrepresented Group | LGBTQ+ (Search) |
Author(s): | Traditional |
Keyword(s) & Features: | Alone; Arms; Bachelors; Beds; Children; Crying; Dew; Dying; Fair; Fathers; Fog; Folk Song; Grieving; Heads; Holding; Lost Love; Maidens; Memories; Mourning; Night; One Octave or Less; Remembering; Sighing; Sleeping; Sons; Stories; Summer; Weavers; Weeping; Winter; Wooing; Wrong |
First Line | When I was a bachelor I lived all alone (Search) |
Average Duration | 2:15 (Search) |
Year of composition | 1945 - 1946 (Search) |
Link to English Text Online | http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=16572 |
Larger Work | Folk Songs Volume 3: British Isles (Search) |
Musical Form | Strophic (Search) |
Original Language | English (Search) |
Score Source | https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/complete-folksong-arrangements-sheet-music/7863141 |
Audio Source | https://open.spotify.com/track/5SKfv6Q9rLJhLhHw0CMakl |
Difficulty Level | College (Search) |
Catalog Designation | Folk Songs vol. 3 no. 5 (Search) |
Voice part suggested by composer | High voice |
Range: | Eb4 - Eb5 (Search) |
Original Key | Ab Major (Search) |
Dedicated To | Joan Cross (Search) |
Premiered By | Peter Pears, tenor; Benjamin Britten, piano; September 27, 1945 (Search) |
Notes | Also available in medium key (Search) |
Contributor | JEM (Search) |