Sopra un'aria antica

Song TitleSopra un'aria antica (Search)
Composer(s):Ottorino Respighi
Author(s):Gabriele D'Annunzio
Keyword(s) & Features: Abandoning; Addressee: Former Lover; Air (Song); Balconies; Beds; Bodies; Bright; Burning; Cliffs; Countries; Cutting; Dark; Darkness; Day; Dead; Death; Death of a Loved One; Deceiving; Deception; Deep; Dialogue; Dissolving; Distant; Empty; Exhuming; Eyes; False Love; Fickle; Flowers; Friends; Fulfilling; Gardens; Gathering; Hair; Hands; Hearing; Hearts; Hushing; Impure; Kisses; Kissing; Lascivious; Last; Light; Listening; Lovely; Loving; Manners; Metaphor: Bed as Tomb; Missing; Mouths; Multiple Speakers; Music; Nature; Necks; Old; Pale; Past Love; Personification: Flowers; Powerful; Reading; Responding; Resurrection; Rising; Riverbeds; Rivers; Scents; Seeing; Signs; Singing; Sky; Songs; Speaking; Summer; Sun; Tears; Temples (Head); Thinking; Tombs; Tomorrow; Veils; Vermilion; Visions; Vows; Walking; White; Wind; Withered; Without Love; Women; Wood; Words; Wreaths; Years
First LineNon sorgono (ascolta ascolta) (Search)
Average Duration6:00 (Search)
Year of composition 1920 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttps://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=450658
Larger WorkQuattro liriche (Search)
Musical FormThrough-composed (Search)
Original LanguageItalian (Search)
Score Source https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/e/e0/IMSLP96881-PMLP199134-Respighi_-_4_liriche_(voice_and_piano).pdf#page=14
Audio Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgCwbZwEbAU
Catalog DesignationP. 125 no. 4 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerMedium voice
Range: Bb3 - G5 (Search)
Original KeyAb minor (Search)
Dedicated ToElsa (Search)
ContributorGTM (Search)
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