Lo! here the gentle lark

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Song TitleLo! here the gentle lark (Search)
Composer(s):Sir Henry Rowley Bishop
Author(s):William Shakespeare
Keyword(s) & Features: Admiration; Birds; Bright; Dawn; Gentle; Gods; Gold; High; Larks; Light; Majesty; Melismas; Morning; Mothers; Mythology; Nature; Rest; Silver; Sons; Stars; Sun; Sunrise; Venus; Waking; Weary
First LineLo here the gentle lark weary of rest (Search)
Average Duration4:45 (Search)
Year of composition 1819 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttps://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=22373
Larger WorkThe Comedy of Errors (Search)
Musical FormThrough-composed (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsElizabethan poetry and drama (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Audio Source https://open.spotify.com/track/3dKndPT2Hd6lGDPn8IxIfS?si=Fh56REm3TtStLS5adKnDJQ
Voice part suggested by composerSoprano
Range: F4 - A5 (Search)
Original KeyF Major (Search)
Premiered ByMiss Stephens (Search)
NotesText from Venus and Adonis (Search)
Orchestra and voice?Yes (Search)
Other instrumentation and voiceVoice, piano, flute (Search)
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