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Time: 16 hours
Level: Intermediate
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 Introduction Resource- This unit looks at a selection of short poems in German that were set to music by Franz Schubert (1797–1828) for a single voice with piano, a genre known as ‘Lieder’ (the German for ‘songs’). Once they...
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- 1 Schubert: introduction Resource
- This unit focuses on a selection of short poems in German that were set to music by Franz Schubert (1797–1828) for a single voice with piano, a genre known as ‘Lieder’ (the German for ‘songs’). These are...
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- 2.1 Introduction Resource
- If Goethe is regarded as the greatest German poet of his time, Franz Schubert (see Figure 1) is generally accepted as the greatest songwriter of the period. But their careers and experience could not have...
- 2.2 Schubert and Johann Michael Vogl Resource
- By 1825 Schubert's painter friend Moritz von Schwind was reporting, ‘There is a Schubertiad at Enderes's each week – that is to say, Vogl sings’ (quoted in Deutsch, 1946, p. 401). Schwind names seven regular...
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- 3 Schubert and the Lied Resource
- Schubert set to music the words of a wide range of poets, from those who were internationally famous to others who were known only locally and were among his group of friends. Schubert was capable of making...
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- 4.1 A note on the translations and scores Resource
- The German text and a parallel English translation of each of the songs we shall study in this unit will be available as attached pdf documents. The styles of translation vary, depending on the style of...
- 4.2 Simplicity and complexity Resource
- As we have already discovered, the concept of ‘simplicity’ is not a simple matter. We saw earlier in the unit that the simplicity of folk-song is not the same as classical simplicity, though both influenced...
- 4.3 Voice and accompaniment Resource
- One thing that is clear from the Lieder we have already considered is that Schubert's writing for the piano is a crucial element of his skill as a songwriter. Sometimes, and throughout his career, he wrote...
- 4.4 ‘Erlkönig’ (‘The Erl-king’, 1815) Resource
- Before continuing with the unit, read the English translation of ‘Erlkönig’ by clicking on the link below. The translation attempts to stay close to the rhythm and rhyming-scheme of Goethe's poem, and...
- 4.5 Two mythological songs: ‘Prometheus’ (1819) and ‘Ganymed’ (1817) Resource
- Goethe's poem ‘Heidenröslein’, with which we began, is a mock folksong; ‘Erlkönig’ is a mock ballad along the lines of Scottish models. They are, so to speak, poems in fancy dress. ‘Prometheus’ and ‘Ganymed’...
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- 5 Conclusion Resource
- Robert Wilkinson (2005) has suggested that Romanticism in the end became ‘the dominant view of art in Europe, and we are to this day its heirs’. This is nowhere truer than in song. Even if you have never...
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- Discography Resource
- Details of the recordings of Schubert's lieder provided in this unit are as follows:
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