Chapter 37: Musical Reading: Schubert, Schumann, and the Early Romantic Lied

Question 1

Art Song

Answer 1

A song set to a high-quality literary text, usually accompanied, and intended for concert performance. See also Lied and mélodie. (page 224)

Question 2

Lied

Answer 2

German for “song”; most commonly associated with the art song of the nineteenth century, usually accompanied by piano. See also art song. (page 224)

Question 3

Lieder

Answer 3

Plural of Lied. (page 224)

Question 4

Song Cycle

Answer 4

Group of songs that are unified musically or through their texts. (page 225)

Question 5

Strophic Form

Answer 5

Song structure in which the same music is repeated with every stanza (strophe) of the poem. (page 225)

Question 6

Through-composed

Answer 6

Song structure that is composed from beginning to end, without repetitions of large sections. (page 225)

Question 7

Melodie

Answer 7

An accompanied French art song of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the French parallel to the German Lied.