Vocal Music
Cards (105)
- One of the most distinctive forms in this era is the art song. The art song became its own special category of vocal music separate from folk, song, operatic aria, and popular song.
- It is a short piece for solo voice and piano. It was very lyrical.
- Composers made great strides during this time period to closely associate the text of words of a piece with its musical counterpart. In other words, poetry and music are intimately fused in the art.
- The melody of art song was poetic in nature, and its tones were more lyrical than the dramatic tones of an opera.
- An art song would turn written poetry into something tangible that could be felt through its music.
- The piano helped add more emotion into the Romantic art song.
- It enhanced the mood and meaning of the text by harmonic, rhythmic, and melodic material independent of the voice part.
- It provided harmonic and melodic support to the voice and also served to punctuate the poetic form by interludes between stanzas and lines of the poem.
- A group of poems by one poet set to music by a composer connected by a central musical idea or mood is called a song cycle.
- The verses are well-written. Poetic structure is responsible for the musical form of a song.
- For well over three hundred years, opera has been one of the most important and best-loved theatrical genres of the nineteenth century.
- An opera is generally referred to as "a stage presentation or work that combines music, costumes, and scenery to relay a story. Most operas are sung, with no spoken lines."
- Six hundred lieders and several famous song cycles.
- “Master of Song Cycle”
- Musical training under his father who taught him how to play violin; he also played the piano viola.
- He studied counterpoint, keyboard playing and singing with Michael Holzen.
- He also studied with the Italian composer Antonio Salieri.
- He used to be choirboy, but in 1812 his voice cracked, ending his career in singing
- In the next years, he was accepted as a teacher in his fathers’ school and taught children in the primary level.
- During Bethooven’s funeral, Schubert was one of the torch bearers.
- • “Serenade”
- • “Serenade”
- • “Ave Maria”
- • “Who is Sylvia?”
- • ”C Major Symphony”
- • “Unfinished Symphony”
- • “Die schone Mullerin”
- • “Winterreise”
- • “Death and the Maiden”
- • “Die Forelle”
- • “The ErlKing”
- Compositions: Winterreise, Impromptus, Die schone, Mullerin
- • He was also admired for his instrumental works such as the pieces “Traumerei,” “Carnaval,” “Fantasiestucke Op. 12,” “Toccata in C,” etc.
- • Seven, Schumann was taught how to play the piano by his teacher, Johann Gottfried Kuntzsch.
- • His longest teacher after Kuntzsch was Friedrich Wieck.