MUSI 3480 Lecture Notes - Carl Loewe, Arpeggio, Schenkerian Analysis
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Versions of schubert"s erlk nig: wrote this at 17. Reichardt"s version of elfking" is very strophic and leaves the expression of the characters to the performer. Only stanzas of the erlk nig are different (the melody is on one note). Carl loewe: contemporary of schubert, his setting of the different characters. Erlk nig has the same melody which suggests something like death. The accompaniment is arpeggiated like a horn calling the boy. Schubert"s version: piano has all the anguish of the father which is why the piano and the voice needs to work together. Gives us the reason for the galloping rather than depicting the galloping. Any text set by the composer is different and just another interpretation. Inspired by goethe"s midnight right with a friend"s child. Schubert came across a famous collection of poetry: heine: heine was a very complex man, he was jewish and had to convert to get ahead.
