Song of the albatross

Song TitleSong of the albatross (Search)
Composer(s):Vittorio Giannini
Author(s):Karl Flaster
Keyword(s) & Features: Albatrosses; Animals; Aye; Beams; Beauty; Billows; Birds; Contrast: Life vs. Death; Death; Fast; Floating; Flying; Foam; Free; Freedom; Gleam; Home; Joy; Life; Living; Metaphor: Death as Sunset; Moon; Nature; Pain; Personification: Albatross; Pleasure; Pounding; Roars; Rushing; Scud; Seas; Seascapes; Setting; Shores; Songs; Speaker: Albatross; Sun; Water; West; Wild
First LineOh, it's aye for the wild sea's rushing roar, (Search)
Average Duration2:00 (Search)
Year of composition 1935 (Search) Circa
Link to English Text Onlinehttps://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=945660
Larger WorkThree Poems of the Sea (Search)
Musical FormTernary (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Audio Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ha2OoprZ1o
Difficulty LevelMasters (Search)
Catalog DesignationNo. 3 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerHigh voice
Range: F4 - B5 (Search)
Original KeyA minor (Search)
Recommended Printed Sourcehttps://www.worldcat.org/title/twenty-four-songs-by-vittorio-giannini-and-karl-flaster/oclc/34965534&referer=brief_results (Search)
Sources Citedhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/3051696?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents (Search)
ContributorGTM (Search)
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