Evening

Song TitleEvening (Search)
Composer(s):Benjamin Britten
Composer Underrepresented GroupLGBTQ+ (Search)
Author(s):Ronald Duncan
Keyword(s) & Features: Animals; Birds; Bleeding; Clouds; Cornfields; Darkness; Day; Drifting; Enamel; Evening; Eyes; Flying; Foxes; Glances; Grace; Gulls; Imagery; Ivory; Lace; Lifting; Light; Loose; Metaphor: Moon as Owl; Metaphor: Stars as Eyes; Metaphor: Sun as Fox; Mice; Moon; Nature; Night; Oceans; Old; One Octave or Less; Owls; Peeping; Personification: Evening; Personification: Moon; Personification: Stars; Privacy; Red; Scarlet; Seas; Silhouettes; Stars; Sun; Sunset; Tearing; Temerity; Thatch; Throats; Throwing; Time of Day
First LineThe red fox, the sun, tears the throat of the evening (Search)
Average Duration1:45 (Search)
Year of composition 1944 - 1945 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttps://www.lieder.net/lieder/assemble_texts.html?SongCycleId=1578
Larger WorkThree Songs from This Way to the Tomb (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Audio Source https://open.spotify.com/track/7hC104tevpD9sJi8SjZ0L2
Catalog DesignationNo. 1 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerMedium voice
Range: F#4 - Eb5 (Search)
NotesFrom the incidental music to the play This Way to the Tomb. (Search)
Recommended Printed Sourcehttps://www.halleonard.com/product/48011080/evening-morning-night (Search)
Sources Citedhttp://www.brittensongdatabase.com/browse/by-ability-level/moderately-easy/evening.html (Search)
ContributorGTM (Search)
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