Music History II Tutorial 8
3 Types of Lied
1. Through composed (DurchKomponiert)
-music is different for each stanza
2. Strophic
-every stanza has the same music
3. Modified Stophic
-close relationship with the first music, similar, but not the same music
Lied
1. Schubert’s Gretchen am Spinnrade (modified strophic)
-piano accompaniment is a depiction
-figuration
2. Robert Schumann’s Im Wunderschonen Monat Mai (strophic)
-prelude, interlude, postlude
3. Clara Schumann’s Liebst du am Schonhiet (modified strophic)
Character Piece
1. Chopin’s Nocturne in E-flat major
2.Mendelssohn’s Lieder ohne Worte
3. Liszt’s “Un sospiro” (sigh)
Chopin
-ornamentation (right hand)
-triple meter (waltz like)
-rubato
-cadenza like opera aria
-simple melody, lullaby
-triad figuration (left hand)
-rounded binary, AABABA Coda
Mendelssohn
-very lyrical
-piece for piano with clear melody
Liszt
-etude, technical study
-alternating hand
Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde
-love portion
-love triangle
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