The linnet is tuning her flute

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Song TitleThe linnet is tuning her flute (Search)
Composer(s):Marion Eugénie Bauer
Composer Underrepresented GroupWoman; Jewish (Search)
Author(s):Louis Untermeyer (and Anonymous, possibly the composer)
Keyword(s) & Features: Anticipation; April; Beauty; Bees; Blossoms; Breasts; Burning; Buttercups; Celebration of Nature; Dawn; Desires; Fire; Flutes; Hearts; Hunger; Joy; Life; Linnets; Metaphor: Nature as Music; Metaphor: Passion as Fire; Music; Nature; Oneness With Nature; Personification: Bees; Personification: Birds; Personification: Flowers; Personification: Seas; Personification: Spring; Personification: Stones; Returning; Rivers; Roots; Seas; Singing; Spring; Stones; Swarming; Throbbing; Tuning; Urging; Vigor; Voices; Wandering; Warm
First LineThe linnet is tuning her flute (Search)
Year of composition 1915 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttps://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=436354
Musical FormModified strophic (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Score Source https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31175035646291;q1=the%20linnet%20is%20tuning%20her%20flute
Difficulty LevelHS (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerMedium/High voice
Range: D4 - G5 (Search)
Original KeyG Major (Search)
Dedicated ToFlorence MacBeth (Search)
NotesAlso 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. (Search)
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