Music 2711F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Lyric Poetry, Carl Friedrich Zelter, Recitative
13 Oct 2016
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Germany responsible for establishing romantic art song place romantic ideals, place where personal and collective come together. Lied=setting of lyric poem for voice + pf. Coming together very individual experience folk celebration, valued individualism and collective whole. Condensed emotions and styles of other genres to miniature form. Symphony, opera, emotions and society, simplify individualism, buying sheet music dedicate to hobbies, learning to play inst particularly piano and learning to sing. Becoming bigger pedals, add a lot in terms of instrument attractive (violin and guitar) Character mignon mysterious, attractive to composer, strong emphasize to nature, it feels magical mysterious, escaping everyday society, (cid:712)there there(cid:713) suggest composer can easily adapted to music. Harmonically straight forward very simple, this plays more emphasize in poetry. All the chords are single note, key changes, reflect change moods, much more urgent music, trying to mood of poetry, complex setting, piano suddenly accompanying, energetic piano (difficult)
