Art songs and the Lied

Question 1

True or False: During the romantic era German Poets started to move away from using Italian and French poets are started to embrace their own language

Answer 1

True

Question 2

What are the themes of lied ?

Answer 2

1. individual confronting forces of nature or society

2. nature as a metaphor for human experience

Question 2

What is a lied?

Answer 2

A German song

Question 3

What is strophic form ? What piece by Schubert is in strophic form?

Answer 3

AAA and Das Wandern

Question 4

What is through composed and what piece can be defined as such?

Answer 4

Der Erlkong is an example of a form not based on repeated sections or verses, especially having different music for each verse.

Question 5

What is ternary form and what schubert piece uses it?

Answer 5

Der atlas. ABA or ABA’

Question 6

What is a song cycle?

Answer 6

A song with an episodic narrative/ shared theme

Question 7

What is the ballad and when was it cultivated ?

Answer 7

It was cultivated in the early 1800s.

1. Has themes of romantic adventure and supernatural incidents
2. Greater length, wider palette of moods with varied themes and textures
3. Piano rose from accompaniment to equal partner

Question 8

What is modified strophic form and what piece is an example of it?

Answer 8

Der Lindenbaum form is a variant of strophic form in which the music for the first stanza is varied for later stanzas, or in which there is a change of key, rhythm, character, or material.

Question 9

What is bar form and what schubert piece uses it?

Answer 9

Standchen is an example of bar form where the first section of melody is sung twice with different texts (the two Stollen) and the remainder (the Abgesang) is sung once. (AAB)

Question 10

What is a parlor song?

Answer 10

song most popular in US, Canada and Britain that was home entertainment

Question 11

What are Schubert’s song cycle?

Answer 11

Die Schone Mullerin and Der Winterreise

Question 12

Who were art songs starting to be aimed at during the 19th century?

Answer 12

professional singers

Question 13

True or False: By the end of the 19th century the art song was stilled performed in the home

Answer 13

False. The art song by the end of the 19th century was played in small concert halls

Question 14

Who was Heinrich Heine?

Answer 14

German poet who Schumann’s Dichterliebe is set to

Question 15

Who was Wilhelm Muller?

Answer 15

German composer. Schumann set his poem Winterreise and Die schone mullerin to music”

Question 16

Who was Johann Goeth?

Answer 16

German poet. Schubert set music to his poem Erlkonig

Question 17

Who was Stephen Foster and what did he compose?

Answer 17

American composer who wrote parlor songs who was known for sentimentality and drew from the south. He wrote songs in the minstrelsy style and/or took songs from minstrelsy. He composed the piece “Jeanie with the light brown hair”.

Question 18

True or False: Stephen Foster was musically trained from a young age

Answer 18

False. Foster had very little training and was influenced by black music even though he disregarded it

Question 19

What are characteristics of a parlor song?

Answer 19

Highy diatonic, little chromaticism and popular throughout the US due to accessibility

Question 20

What is verse refrain form?

Answer 20

A form in vocal music in which two or more stanzas of poetry are each sung to the same music (the verse) and each is followed by the same refrain.

Question 21

What is the name of Schumann song cycle ?

Answer 21

Dichterliebe

Question 22

True or False: Schubert’s Der Erlkong is a song cycle

Answer 22

False the piece is a ballade