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Chapter 18

Chapter 18 Study Guide

by OC3023

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University of Toronto Scarborough

Department

Music and Culture

Course Code

VPMA99H3

Professor

Andy Lee

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Chapter 18 The Early Romantics

Prelude

-instrumental music can communicate pure emotion without using words

-audience was increasingly made up of middle class

-Lied is a German art song

-became favourite outlet for intense personal feelings

-piano accompaniment

-composers grouped songs into collections with unifying characteristics, such as texts by a single

poet or focus on common theme

-song cycle is a collection of song

-all songs are to be performed in order as movements of a multi-movement vocal work

-tell a story through succession of songs

-combine narrative emphasis with expressivity of lyric poem

-song cycle provides balance between small and large forms, lyric and narrative content, unity

and variety

-piano was capable of producing full, firm tone at any dynamic level

-suitable for expressiveness and virtuosity

-splitting accompaniment between 2 hands

-reinforcing melody by simulating orchestral technique of doubling

-extended legato effects with damper pedal

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Lieder

-wrote over 600 songs

-Schubertiads are lieder first performed in home concerts

-simple, artless quality of folk song

-suggest uncomplicated feeling

-some are filled with sweetness and melancholy

-some are declamatory, intense, and dramatic, strong sense of harmonic colour

-strong sense of harmonic colour

-complex modulations are embodied in long passages in which tonality is kept in suspense and

underlined dramatic qualities of song text

-harmonic boldness

-alternating between major and minor forms of triad

-chromatic colouring in diatonic sound

-modulations move from tonic toward flat keys, and median/ submediant

-use of harmony reflects expressive purpose

-set poetry by Goeth

-embody character, describe scene and convey situation, express emotions through melody,

harmony, accompaniment, and form

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Instrumental music can communicate pure emotion without using words. Audience was increasingly made up of middle class. Composers grouped songs into collections with unifying characteristics, such as texts by a single poet or focus on common theme. All songs are to be performed in order as movements of a multi-movement vocal work. Combine narrative emphasis with expressivity of lyric poem. Song cycle provides balance between small and large forms, lyric and narrative content, unity and variety. Piano was capable of producing full, firm tone at any dynamic level. Reinforcing melody by simulating orchestral technique of doubling. Schubertiads are lieder first performed in home concerts. Some are declamatory, intense, and dramatic, strong sense of harmonic colour. Complex modulations are embodied in long passages in which tonality is kept in suspense and underlined dramatic qualities of song text. Alternating between major and minor forms of triad. Modulations move from tonic toward flat keys, and median/ submediant.

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