HMU111H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Strophic Form, Winterreise, Lied
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Romanticism first appeared in painting as a way of opposing academic and classical tendencies: neoclassical. Tragic and isolated young man (often a creeper xd: troubled by suicide, depression, etc. Nature, especially trees, streams, the colour green, etc. What does romanticism do to music: advent of programmatic music: instrumental music w/ ideas/stories! (literary nature, cyclic structure (recurring theme, complex harmony unrelated keys. Tonal relationships and harmonic movement not always based on tonic and dominant is not autonomous: free from notion that it must serve the words of a madrigal/opera ideal mode of instrumental as premier mode of expression resulted in program. Composed in almost every genre of his time. Many characteristics of the romantic lied depicted in schubert"s 600+ songs, many performed in his home: schubertians. Strong sense of harmonic colour: complex modulations, sometimes in long passages. Set poetry often to the works of goethe, and muller.
