Walton, ChristopherChristopherWalton2024-11-192024-11-1920220354-818X10.24451/arbor.18761https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.1876110.5937/newso2260221Whttps://arbor.bfh.ch/handle/arbor/35208Various commentators have noted Beethoven’s use of a monotone in the second song of his cycle An die ferne Geliebte, where the repetition of a single note serves to conjure up the power of memory. This monotone served as a model for several subsequent composers of song cycles, often in a similar context when their singer/narrator recalls things that are past, from Peter Cornelius to Arnold Bax. In the case of Arthur Somervell’s A Shropshire Lad, a further correlation is found between his poet’s “blue-remembered hills” and Beethoven’s “Berge so blau”.enAn die ferne GeliebteSong cycleMonotoneLudwig van BeethovenArthur SomervellM1MLPRarticle