Romantic Art Song

• Art Song


  A Western vocal music composition. Usually written for solo voice with piano accompaniment and in the classical art music tradition
• Melody


  Poetic in nature, tones were more lyrical than the dramatic tones of an opera.
• Accompaniment


  It enhances the mood and meaning of the text by harmonic and melodic material independent of the voice part
• Franz Schubert


  An example of a romantic art composer
• Forms of an Art Song

  Through-composed, Stophic
• Through-composed


  The form is different for each stanza and the music closely follows the changing ideas, and moods of the poem

  (Ex. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen)
• Strophic


  Is a song structure in which all verses or stanzas of the stanzas of text are sung to the same music

  (Ex. Leron-Leron sinta)