Art songs and the Lied Flashcards
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
True
What are the themes of lied ?
- individual confronting forces of nature or society
2. nature as a metaphor for human experience
What is a lied?
A German song
What is strophic form ? What piece by Schubert is in strophic form?
AAA and Das Wandern
What is through composed and what piece can be defined as such?
Der Erlkong is an example of a form not based on repeated sections or verses, especially having different music for each verse.
What is ternary form and what schubert piece uses it?
Der atlas. ABA or ABA’
What is a song cycle?
A song with an episodic narrative/ shared theme
What is the ballad and when was it cultivated ?
It was cultivated in the early 1800s.
- Has themes of romantic adventure and supernatural incidents
- Greater length, wider palette of moods with varied themes and textures
- Piano rose from accompaniment to equal partner
What is modified strophic form and what piece is an example of it?
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.
What is bar form and what schubert piece uses it?
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)
What is a parlor song?
song most popular in US, Canada and Britain that was home entertainment
What are Schubert’s song cycle?
Die Schone Mullerin and Der Winterreise
Who were art songs starting to be aimed at during the 19th century?
professional singers
True or False: By the end of the 19th century the art song was stilled performed in the home
False. The art song by the end of the 19th century was played in small concert halls
Who was Heinrich Heine?
German poet who Schumann’s Dichterliebe is set to
Who was Wilhelm Muller?
German composer. Schumann set his poem Winterreise and Die schone mullerin to music”
Who was Johann Goeth?
German poet. Schubert set music to his poem Erlkonig
Who was Stephen Foster and what did he compose?
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”.
True or False: Stephen Foster was musically trained from a young age
False. Foster had very little training and was influenced by black music even though he disregarded it
What are characteristics of a parlor song?
Highy diatonic, little chromaticism and popular throughout the US due to accessibility
What is verse refrain form?
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.
What is the name of Schumann song cycle ?
Dichterliebe
True or False: Schubert’s Der Erlkong is a song cycle
False the piece is a ballade
