Chapter 18

Question 1

When you sing a lied, it is all about voice and ____?

Answer 1

voice and piano

Question 2

In the 18th century, what was lied strongly connected to?

Answer 2

It is connected to folk music

Question 3

The whole notion of the development of nationalism in romantic thought, comes from which country?

Answer 3

We think of Germany

Question 4

Considering nationalism, what type of music is going to be most important as central to a country’s music or musical identity?

Answer 4

Folk music

Question 5

As a result of nationalism, we can assume that folklore and folk music did what?

Answer 5

Increases and gains greater prestige

Question 6

So when we have a song that using a single repeated stanza

Answer 6

Strophic

Question 7

What do we call a song that uses new music for different poetic stanzas

Answer 7

through composed

Question 8

Heidenröslein is an example of what kind of song?

Answer 8

Strophic

Question 9

Erlkönig is an example of what kind of song?

Answer 9

Through composed

Question 10

When the Erlköing is performed, how many different characters are involved? And who are they?

Answer 10

4: the King, the Boy, the Father, the Narrator

Answer 11

Heidenröslein (Little Rose on the Hearth)

Schubert

(1797-1828)

Strophic Lied/Poem

Answer 12

Der Erlkönig (the Elf King)

Schubert

(1797-1828)

Through composed Lied/Poem

Question 13

What are some themes explored in the Erlkönig?

Answer 13

Galloping of the horse/cart

The overall atomsphere: dark/other worldly scariness

Also represents: a kind of inwardness

Question 14

Schubert spent his entire life in one city- what city is that?

Answer 14

Vienna

Question 15

What were Schubertiads?

Answer 15

An event held to celebrate the music of Franz Schubert:

they meet in a living room and listen to small, intimate performances

Question 16

What are salons?

Answer 16

little performances for individuals gathered just for the event: Schubertiads held in salons

Question 17

What happened to Schubert in 1822?

Answer 17

He got Syphilis- a social disease

Question 18

During this period of time an instrument becomes the romantic instrument?

Answer 18

the piano

Question 19

Schubert was primarily a composer of what types of works?

Answer 19

chamber works and smaller works, in spite that he wrote 17 operas. only 2 exist though (conspiracy theories about what happened to schubert’s operas)

Question 20

What are some things that Schubert’s unfinished symphony reflects?

Answer 20

Lyricism
Composer’s inner soul

Question 21

What do we call a collection of songs that is connected to some kind of narrative element and intended to be sung together?

Answer 21

song cycle

Question 22

So, did Schubert compose operas, symphonies, lieder, masses?

Answer 22

OH YEAH. uh huh. He composed a lot of stuff