The Enjoyment of Music 10th Shorter Edition

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The Enjoyment of Music 10th Shorter Edition
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Unit XVI Nineteenth-Century Art Song
Out of my great sorrows I make my little
songs. Heinrich Heine
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42. The Romantic Song

• German art song
• Lied, Lieder

Schubert, Gretchen am Spinnrade
Schumann, Die Soldatenbraut
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Types of Song Structure

• Strophic
• Through-composed forms (durchkomponiert)
• Modified strophic

Schumann Die Soldatenbraut
Schubert Gretchen am Spinnrade
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The Lied

• German text
• Voice and piano
• Romantic composers of the genre

Schumann Die Soldatenbraut
Robert Schumann
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel
Amy Cheney Beach
Johannes Brahms
Clara Schumann
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The Lied

• Song cycle
• Love and nature
• Romantic poets Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
  Heinrich Heine
• Popularity of the piano

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42. Schubert and the LiedFranz Schubert
(17971828)

• Viennese composer
• Early musical prowess
• Socially shy
• Gifted songwriter
• Home and salon concerts
• Regional fame
• Death at an early age (31) from syphilis

Schubert Gretchen am Spinnrade
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Schuberts Music

• Classical and Romantic traits
• Chamber music is late example of Viennese
  Classicism
• Piano works exhibit a new lyricism
• 600-plus songs

Schubert String Quartet in C, III
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Schubert Erlking (Erlkönig) (Listening Guide)

• Goethe
• Piano establishes atmosphere
• Four characters narrator, father, son, Erlking
• One singer
• Through-composed
• Obsessive triplets in piano

Listening Guide PDF
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44. Robert Schumann and the Song Cycle
The singing voice is hardly sufficient in
itself it cannot carry the whole task of
interpretation un-aided. In addition to its
overall expression, the finer shadings of the
poem must be represented as well provided that
the melody does not suffer in the
process. Robert Schumann
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Robert Schumann (18101856)

• German composer and critic
• Neue Zeitschrift für Musik (New Journal for
  Music)
• Clara Wieck
• Married in 1840, against fathers wishes
• Clara as interpreter
• Periods of depression
• Final breakdown
• Institutionalized
• Died at 46

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Schumanns Music

• Impassioned melody, novel harmony, driving
  rhythms
• Literary meanings in music
• Lieder, wrote several song cycles
• Four symphonies

Schumann Die Soldatenbraut
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Schumann In the lovely month of May, from A
Poets Love (Dichterliebe) (Listening Guide)

• Song cycle, psychological progression
• 1st song in cycle
• Speaks of fragility of new love
• Strophic form

Listening Guide PDF
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