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Song of the albatross
Song Title
Song of the albatross (
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Composer(s):
Vittorio Giannini
Author(s):
Karl Flaster
Keyword(s) & Features:
Albatrosses
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Animals
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Aye
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Beams
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Beauty
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Billows
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Birds
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Contrast: Life vs. Death
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Death
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Fast
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Floating
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Flying
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Foam
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Free
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Freedom
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Gleam
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Home
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Joy
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Life
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Living
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Metaphor: Death as Sunset
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Moon
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Nature
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Pain
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Personification: Albatross
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Pleasure
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Pounding
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Roars
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Rushing
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Scud
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Seas
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Seascapes
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Setting
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Shores
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Songs
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Speaker: Albatross
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Sun
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Water
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West
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Wild
First Line
Oh, it's aye for the wild sea's rushing roar, (
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Average Duration
2:00 (
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Year of composition
1935 (
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Link to English Text Online
https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=945660
Larger Work
Three Poems of the Sea (
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Musical Form
Ternary (
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Original Language
English (
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Audio Source
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ha2OoprZ1o
Difficulty Level
Masters (
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Catalog Designation
No. 3 (
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Voice part suggested by composer
High voice
Range:
F4 - B5 (
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Original Key
A minor (
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Recommended Printed Source
https://www.worldcat.org/title/twenty-four-songs-by-vittorio-giannini-and-karl-flaster/oclc/34965534&referer=brief_results
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Sources Cited
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3051696?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
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Contributor
GTM (
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