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The linnet is tuning her flute
Song record
peer reviewed
by Editorial Board member: Gregory Zavracky
Song Title
The linnet is tuning her flute (
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Composer(s):
Marion Eugénie Bauer
Composer Underrepresented Group
Woman; Jewish (
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Author(s):
Louis Untermeyer (and Anonymous, possibly the composer)
Keyword(s) & Features:
Anticipation
;
April
;
Beauty
;
Bees
;
Blossoms
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Breasts
;
Burning
;
Buttercups
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Celebration of Nature
;
Dawn
;
Desires
;
Fire
;
Flutes
;
Hearts
;
Hunger
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Joy
;
Life
;
Linnets
;
Metaphor: Nature as Music
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Metaphor: Passion as Fire
;
Music
;
Nature
;
Oneness With Nature
;
Personification: Bees
;
Personification: Birds
;
Personification: Flowers
;
Personification: Seas
;
Personification: Spring
;
Personification: Stones
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Returning
;
Rivers
;
Roots
;
Seas
;
Singing
;
Spring
;
Stones
;
Swarming
;
Throbbing
;
Tuning
;
Urging
;
Vigor
;
Voices
;
Wandering
;
Warm
First Line
The linnet is tuning her flute (
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Year of composition
1915 (
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Link to English Text Online
https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=436354
Musical Form
Modified strophic (
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Original Language
English (
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Score Source
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31175035646291;q1=the%20linnet%20is%20tuning%20her%20flute
Difficulty Level
HS (
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Voice part suggested by composer
Medium/High voice
Range:
D4 - G5 (
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Original Key
G Major (
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Dedicated To
Florence MacBeth (
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Notes
Also available in low key (F Major). The second verse is not part of Untermeyer’s original poem, and its origin is uncertain; it was possibly written by the composer. (
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