O How Can I Be Blythe and Glad
Song record peer reviewed by Editorial Board member: Susan McDaniel| Song Title | O How Can I Be Blythe and Glad (Search) |
| Composer(s): | Ludwig van Beethoven |
| Author(s): | Robert Burns |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Absence; All; Attractiveness; Away; Aye; Best; Blithe; Bonny; Brisk; Coming; Delusion; Disowning; Disownment; Distance; Drifting; Driving; Exists in Composer-sanctioned Translation; Eyes; Far; Fathers; Forbidden Love; Friends; Frosty; Glad; Hills; Home; Hope; Joy; Lads; Longing; Love; One; Passing; Renewal; Separation; Snow; Soon; Spring; Tears; Thinking; Trust; Weariness; Weary; Wind; Winter |
| First Line | O, how can I be blythe and glad / O wie kann ich wohl fröhlich sein (Search) |
| Average Duration | 2:00 (Search) |
| Year of composition | 1816 (Search) |
| Larger Work | 25 Schottische Lieder (London/Edinburgh 1818, Berlin 1822) (Search) |
| Musical Form | Strophic (Search) |
| Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups | Romanticism; Liberalism; Socialism; National poet of Scotland; Scottish Makar tradition; Republicanism; Anticlericalism (Search) |
| Original Language | English (Scots dialect) (Search) |
| Score Source | https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/a/a8/IMSLP53078-PMLP98037-Beethoven_Werke_Breitkopf_Serie_24_No_257_Op_108.pdf |
| Audio Source | https://open.spotify.com/track/4l3Ni8jRLSClSiiyyggQjr |
| Catalog Designation | Op. 108, No. 14 (Search) |
| Complete Edition Reference | Beethoven Werke (Henle, 1994-2014) 11/1, 70 (Search) |
| Range: | D4 - E5 (Search) |
| Original Key | D Major (Search) |
| Notes | National poet of Scotland (Search) |
| Other instrumentation and voice | (1818) Voice, Violin, Violoncello, Piano. (1822 includes Flute) (Search) |
| Sources Cited | http://www.dsl.ac.uk (Search) |