| Song Title | The Maid of Isla (Search)
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| Composer(s): | Ludwig van Beethoven |
| Author(s): | Walter Scott |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Adverse; Autobiographical Fantasy; Bards; Beating; Belsches, Williamina; Billows; Birds; Boats; Breezes; Bringing; Clan Mhuirich; Cliffs; Close; Clouds; Cold; Coming; Contending; Courtship; Dark; Decks; Exists in Composer-sanctioned Translation; Exposed; Finding; Foam; Gallant; Gleaming; Graves; Hebrides; Home; Isla (Isle of Islay?); Leeward; Little; Love; Lowering; Maids; Metaphor: Woman as Rock; Metaphor: Woman as Wave; Mists; Now; Observing; Oceans; Raving; Rocks; Rough Seas; Sailing; Sea-birds; Seeing; Seeking; Shelter; Skiffs; Sky; Speaker: Man/Masculine; Sprays; Still; Storm-clouds; Struggling; Suits; Surging; Tides; Troubled; Unequal; Unkind; Unrequited Love; Urging; Vourich, Allen; Wars; Waves; Ways; Weariness; Weary; Wheeling; White; Why; Wind; Wings; Wintry; Yon; Yonder |
| First Line | O maid of Isla from yon cliff / O Islamägdlein, die Du kühn (Search) |
| Average Duration | 2:30 (Search) |
| Year of composition |
1817 (Search) |
| Larger Work | 25 Schottische Lieder (London/Edinburgh 1818, Berlin 1822) (Search) |
| Musical Form | Strophic (Search) |
| Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups | Member of the Tory establishment and the Highland Society; Victorian (Search) |
| Original Language | English (Search) |
| Score Source |
https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/a/a8/IMSLP53078-PMLP98037-Beethoven_Werke_Breitkopf_Serie_24_No_257_Op_108.pdf
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| Audio Source |
https://open.spotify.com/track/4tD93NZVSIJWc1d3g1HHhb
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| Catalog Designation | Op. 108, No. 04 (Search) |
| Complete Edition Reference | Beethoven Werke (Henle, 1994-2014) 11/1, 20 (Search) |
| Range: | D4 - F#5 (Search) |
| Original Key | D Major (Search) |
| Other instrumentation and voice | (1818) Voice, Violin, Violoncello, Piano. (1822 includes Flute) (Search) |
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