Art Song

Listen to Symphonies 3 and 4, the Scottish and Italian

Haiden Röslein by Franz Schubert. Composed in 1815.

Schubert – Unfinished Symphony

- Bridge composer, he was between two period, classical and romantic

- Soprano and Piano

- ABAA – Strophic Form, series of verses, repeat repeat.
- Simple structure
- Repetition of notes
- Ragtime
- Stride piano
- Con tenerezza, with tenderness

Auf Flügeln des Gesanges by Felix Mendelssohn.

- Use of arpeggios
- Sempre Legato, always legato, smooth always
- Compound Duple, 6/8
- Waltz, ¾ dance from the baroque suite.
- Pitch Repetition
- Mendelsohn usually writes smooth music
- Gentle shift of harmony.
- Good vocal writing, “considered” leaps.
- Modified Strophic Form, sort of the same thing but some modificiations.

Ich grolle nicht by Robert Schumann

- Very low bass, when the romantic started using the piano, the range expanded
- Starting with inversion in the first hand
- Half diminished chords
- Romantic Drama?
- Chordal
Wie Melodien zieht es mir by Johannes Brahms
- Much more sharing of roles with the left and right hand in the melody.
- Piano plays melody as well, takes over.
- Rhythm was very prominent in Brahms
- More independence of melody and accompaniment.
- More ‘leaps’ used in melody.
- Overlapping pitches.
- Harmonies become ‘more complex’