Adelaide Plains

The Adelaide Plains (Alternative name: Tarndanya) is a plain occupying the area in South Australia between the Mount Lofty Ranges to the east and Gulf St Vincent to the west. The plains are generally fertile with annual rainfall of about 460 mm (18 in) per year.

The plains can be roughly divided into 3 parts. The southern area is now covered by the city of Adelaide, the capital of South Australia. The next mid area is the "bread basket" of South Australia with many market gardens and wineries, particularly around the towns of Virginia and Angle Vale. The northern area is predominantly used for growing cereal grains such as wheat, barley, and canola, and sheep.

The Kaurna are the Indigenous Australians who lived on the Adelaide Plains of South Australia, before European settlement.

The Adelaide Plains are crossed by a number of rivers and creeks, but most dry up during summer. The rivers include the Onkaparinga River, River Torrens, Little Para River, Gawler River, Light River and Wakefield River.

Adelaide (opera)

Adelaide or l'Adelaide is an opera by Antonio Sartorio to an Italian libretto by Pietro Dolfin. It was premiered in Venice at the Teatro San Salvatore in 1672. An exact date is not known, although the libretto is dedicated February 19, 1672.

The genre of the opera is dramma per musica. The libretto follows the same historical events as Handel's later Lotario.

Roles

Synopsis

The story takes place in 951 AD, when, after the death of her husband Lothair II of Italy, Adelaide of Italy is forced to marry Adalbert of Italy by his father, Berengar II of Italy.

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Adelaide (Beethoven)

"Adelaide", Op. 46, (German pronunciation: [aːdəlaːˈiːdə]) is a song for solo voice and piano composed in about 1795 by Ludwig van Beethoven. The text is a poem in German by Friedrich von Matthisson (1761–1831).

Composition and publication

During the period he created "Adelaide", Beethoven was in his mid twenties; he had come to Vienna in 1792 to pursue a career and was in the early stages of making a name for himself as pianist and composer. He had only recently completed his studies with Joseph Haydn. A. Peter Brown suggests that in writing "Adelaide," Beethoven was strongly influenced by Haydn's song "O Tuneful Voice" (Hob. XXVIa:42, c. 1795), written by the elder composer shortly before. Like "Adelaide", "O Tuneful Voice" sets a love poem, is in moderate tempo with a steady triplet accompaniment, and wanders from key to key in its middle section.

In composing "Adelaide" Beethoven made many sketches.Barry Cooper assigns the work of composition to "an unusually long time during 1794, 1795, and perhaps 1796." The song was published by Artaria in Vienna; the first edition bears no date, but an advertisement for it appeared 8 February 1797 in the Wiener Zeitung.

List of songs composed by Franz Schubert

The following is a list of the complete secular vocal output composed by Franz Schubert (31 January 1797 – 19 November 1828).

It is divided into eleven sections, and attempts to reflect the most current information with regards to Schubert’s catalogue. The works contained in this list refer to those found primarily in the following two series of the Neue Schubert-Ausgabe (NSA) edition:

Note however that some of Schubert's song cycles contain both Lieder and part songs.

The list below includes the following information: