MUS 114 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cantabile, Tempo Rubato, Art Music
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Topic: prelude 5: music as passion and individualism/the 19th century (romantic) Chapter 36: musical reading: schubert, schumann, and the early romantic lied. >eternal longing, indefinable discontent: worlds of strangeness and wonder. Slide 4: romantic style characteristics: melody = longer, expressive, and song-like (cantabile) Form = freer forms/less important than musical content. Slide 5: the musician in society: musicians supported by the new middle class. Star solo performers = virtuoso: women as performers, patrons, and composers. Slide 1: song: song vocal solo. Slide 2: the lied: art song, lied (plural lieder) German- texted solo song with piano accompaniment: preexisting poetry. Love, despair, longing, beauty of nature: characteristics- accompaniment, poetry, mood. Groups unified by a narrative thread or common theme: for amateurs and artists alike. Slide 3: types of song structure/form: strophic. No repetition of whole sections, the music changes according to the text: modified strophic.
