The Shepherd's Song
Song record peer reviewed by Editorial Board member: Susan McDaniel| Song Title | The Shepherd's Song (Search) |
| Composer(s): | Ludwig van Beethoven |
| Author(s): | Joanna Baillie |
| Author Underrepresented Group | Woman (Search) |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Bleating; Bushes; Dogs; Exists in Composer-sanctioned Translation; Flowers; Ghosts; Glittering; Gowans; Grass; Hills; Lambs; Lavrocks (Larks); Mills; Passing; Regret; Shadows; Shepherds; Sky; Songs; Time; Trysts; Watching; Water |
| First Line | The gowan glitters on the sward/Die Maaslieb glänzt auf grünem Grund (Search) |
| Average Duration | 3:00 (Search) |
| Year of composition | 1818 (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 (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 |
| Audio Source | https://open.spotify.com/track/256xqbpmBxDamGzbhSXyhX?si=cnlV0ABmQli38JS6Rb80EA |
| Catalog Designation | Op. 108, No. 23 (Search) |
| Complete Edition Reference | Beethoven Werke (Henle, 1994-2014) 11/1, 122 (Search) |
| Range: | E4 - E5 (Search) |
| Original Key | A Major (Search) |
| Notes | Poet was a playwright (Search) |
| Other instrumentation and voice | (1818) Voice, Violin, Violoncello, Piano. (1822 includes Flute) (Search) |