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Classical Art Song Insights

The document discusses several art songs composed between 1815-1860. It analyzes Haiden Röslein by Franz Schubert, Auf Flügeln des Gesanges by Felix Mendelssohn, Ich grolle nicht by Robert Schumann, and Wie Melodien zieht es mir by Johannes Brahms. For each song, it outlines musical elements like form, accompaniment style, harmony, and melodic characteristics. Overall, the document examines features of art songs from the classical and romantic periods through analyses of four well-known examples.

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Classical Art Song Insights

The document discusses several art songs composed between 1815-1860. It analyzes Haiden Röslein by Franz Schubert, Auf Flügeln des Gesanges by Felix Mendelssohn, Ich grolle nicht by Robert Schumann, and Wie Melodien zieht es mir by Johannes Brahms. For each song, it outlines musical elements like form, accompaniment style, harmony, and melodic characteristics. Overall, the document examines features of art songs from the classical and romantic periods through analyses of four well-known examples.

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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’

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