romantic period, part 2

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romantic period, part 2
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Brick - Ben Folds Five

• 6 am day after Christmas
• I throw some clothes on in the dark
• The smell of cold
• Car seat is freezing
• The world is sleeping
• I am numb

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Brick - Ben Folds Five

• Up the stairs to her apartment
• She is balled up on the couch
• Her mom and dad went down to Charlotte
• they're not home to find us out

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Brick - Ben Folds Five

• And we drive
• Now that I have found someone
• I'm feeling more alone
• Than I ever have before

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Brick - Ben Folds Five

• She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly
• off the coast and I'm headed nowhere
• She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly

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Brick - Ben Folds Five

• They call her name at 730
• I pace around the parking lot
• then I walk down to buy her flowers
• And sell some gifts that I got

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Brick - Ben Folds Five

• Can't you see
• It's not me you're dying for
• Now she's feeling more alone
• Than she ever has before

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Brick - Ben Folds Five

• She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly
• off the coast and I'm headed nowhere
• She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly

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Brick - Ben Folds Five

• As weeks went by
• It showed that she was not fine
• They told me son it's time to tell the truth
• She broke down and I broke down
• Cause I was tired of lying

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Brick - Ben Folds Five

• Driving home to her apartment
• For the moment we're alone
• She's alone
• I'm alone
• Now I know it
• Chorus

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Brick - Ben Folds Five

• She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly
• off the coast and I'm headed nowhere
• She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly

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subtext

• whats NOT said
• its what the songwriter is trying to convey
  without stating it outright
• present in every form of media

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Lied (singular)Lieder (plural)
The German Word for Song Our concept of the
popular song originated in the early 19th century
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Lieder

• union of music and poetry in the 19th century
• German poets--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Henrich
  Heine et al.
• piano became universal home instrument
• Two types
• 1. through-composed new music for each stanza
  (a contemporary example is BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY)
• 2. strophic all stanzas sung to the same music.
  ( a familiar example is AMAZING GRACE)

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Lieder

• are for piano and voice
• are meant to express intimacy and privacy
• have poetic texts

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MondnachtRobert Schumann

• Strophic song with much repetition. Perfect
  mating of Romantic poetry and Romantic music.
• intensely personal song
• intended as an intimate expression of love for
  his wife

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MondnachtRobert Schumann

• Es war, als hätt' der Himmel,
• It was as if the sky
• Die Erde still geküßt,
• Had quietly kissed the
  earth,
• Daß sie im Blütenschimmer
• So that in a shower of
  blossoms
• Von ihm nur träumen müßt.
• She must now dream
  only of him.

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MondnachtRobert Schumann

• Die Luft ging durch die Felder,
• The breeze wafted
  through the fields,
• Die Ähren wogten sacht,
• The ears of corn waved
  gently,
• Es rauschten leis die Wälder,
• The forests rustled
  faintly,
• So sternklar war die Nacht.
• So sparkling clear was
  the night.

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MondnachtRobert Schumann

• Und meine Seele spannte
• And my soul stretched
• Weit ihre Flügel aus,
• its wings out far,
• Flog durch die stillen Lande,
• Flew through the still
  lands,
• Als flöge sie nach Haus.
• as if it were flying
  home.

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ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810-1856)

• failure in many efforts (law school, piano
  perfomance)
• suffered from mental illness tried to commit
  suicide (unsuccessfully)
• spent final years in mental institution

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• His greatest works are his lieder
• All are written for Clara

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CLARA SCHUMANN

• married Clara Weich in 1840 over her fathers
  objections composed 125 lieder for piano
  including song cycles Dichterliebe (Poets Love)
  and Frauenliebe und Leben (Women in Love and Life)

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CLARA SCHUMANN

• Clara was a brilliant musician and composer
• Spent final years compiling her husbands music
  into orderly sets and nursing him in the asylum

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Some songs are meant to tell a story
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The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon
Lightfoot
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The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon
Lightfoot
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The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon
Lightfoot
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The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon
Lightfoot
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SCHUBERT (1797-1827)

• first important composer of lieder.
• son of a lower-middle class Viennese school
  teacher

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SCHUBERT (1797-1827)

• Schubert lived from hand to mouth--certain
  songs that would later sell in the hundreds of
  thousands he gave away for the price of a meal
• Schubert composed 600 lieder.

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SCHUBERT (1797-1827)

• musical training was in a school for court
  singers--teachers and friends were amazed by his
  talent

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SCHUBERT (1797-1827)

• received fees for teaching and publications
• from contributions from a circle of friends--the
  Schubertians--young artists, musicians, and
  writers.
• They recognized him as a genius and helped pay
  his bills, promote his works etc.

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SCHUBERT (1797-1827)

• friends held soirees--Schubertiads--fostered
  the popularity of the lied.

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Der Erlkönig (The Elf-King) by Franz Schubert

• four characters the Elf-king, the child, the
  father, and the narrator--each has a distinctive
  voice
• hammering of the octaves (horses hooves)
• minor mode (dark night/tense situation)
• through-composed--song changes continuously as
  the drama of the song increases.

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Der Erlkönig (The Elf-King) by Franz Schubert

• NARRATOR
• Wer reitet so spät durch Nacht und Wind?
• 
  Who rides so late through the night
  and wind?
• Es ist der Vater mit seinem Kind
• It
  is the father who's holding his child
• Er hat den Knaben wohl in dem Arm,
• He
  holds the youngster tight in his arm,
• Er faßt ihn sicher, er hält ihn warm.
• He
  holds him tight and keeps him warm.

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Der Erlkönig (The Elf-King) by Franz Schubert

• FATHER
• Mein Sohn, was birgst du so bang dein
  Gesicht? -
• Son,
  what makes you afraid to look?
• SON
• Siehst, Vater, du den Erlkönig nicht?
• Dont
  you see, father, the Elf-King there?
• Den Erlenkönig mit Kron und Schweif?
• 
  The King of the elves with his crown and
  train?"

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Der Erlkönig (The Elf-King) by Franz Schubert

• FATHER
• Mein Sohn, es ist ein Nebelstreif
• Son,
  its only a streak of mist.

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Der Erlkönig (The Elf-King) by Franz Schubert

• ERLKING
• Du liebes Kind, komm, geh mit mir!
• Sweet
  lovely child, come, go with me!
• Gar schöne Spiele spiel ich mit dir
• I will
  play the finest of games with you
• Manch bunte Blumen sind an dem Strand,
• Many
  beauatiful flowers grow by the shore.
• Meine Mutter hat manch gülden Gewand.
• My mother
  for you has many golden robes.

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Der Erlkönig (The Elf-King) by Franz Schubert

• SON
• Mein Vater, mein Vater, und hörest du nicht,
• 
  My father, my father, do you not hear
• Was Erlenkönig mir leise verspricht?
• What the Elf-King is
  softly promising into my ear?
• FATHER
• Sei ruhig, bleibe ruhig, mein Kind
• 
  Calm yourself, be calm, my son
• In dürren Blättern säuselt der Wind.
• The
  dry leaves are rustling in the wind.

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Der Erlkönig (The Elf-King) by Franz Schubert

• ELF-KING
• Willst, feiner Knabe, du mit mir gehn?
• Well, you
  fine boy, wont you come with me?
• Meine Töchter sollen dich warten schön
• My
  daughters should royally wait upon you.
• Meine Töchter führen den nächtlichen Reihn
• My daughters
  conduct each night their song fest,
• Und wiegen und tanzen und singen dich ein.
• They will rock you, dance
  for you, sing you to sleep!

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Der Erlkönig (The Elf-King) by Franz Schubert

• SON
• Mein Vater, mein Vater, und siehst du nicht dort
• My
  Father, my father, do you not see
• Erlkönigs Töchter am düstern Ort?
• the
  Elf-Kings daughters there in the dark?"
• FATHER
• Mein Sohn, mein Sohn, ich seh es genau
• 
  Son, my son, I see only too well
• Es scheinen die alten Weiden so grau.
• It is the
  grey gleam in the old willow trees."

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Der Erlkönig (The Elf-King) by Franz Schubert

• ELF-KING
• Ich liebe dich, mich reizt deine schöne Gestalt
• I love thee, I'm aroused by thy
  beautiful form
• Und bist du nicht willig, so brauch ich Gewalt.
• And if youre not willing, then I shall
  use force.

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Der Erlkönig (The Elf-King) by Franz Schubert

• SON
• Mein Vater, mein Vater, jetzt faßt er mich an!
• My father, my father, now
  hes seizing me!
• Erlkönig hat mir ein Leids getan!
• 
  The Elf-King is hurting me!

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Der Erlkönig (The Elf-King) by Franz Schubert

• NARRATOR
• Dem Vater grauset's, er reitet geschwind,
• Fear grips
  the father, he rides like the wind,
• Er hält in Armen das ächzende Kind,
• He
  holds in his arms the moaning child
• Erreicht den Hof mit Müh' und Not
• With
  effort and toil he reaches the house
• In seinen Armen das Kind war tot.
• The
  child in his arms was dead.

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NATIONALISM

• incorporation of national folk music
• revolutions of spirit of nationalism that swept
  19th century Europe were manifestions of Romantic
  search for freedom and national identity

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Russian Nationalists

• Peter Tchaikovsky
• 1812 Overture
• Romeo and Juliet
• The Nutcracker

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The Russian Five

• Modest Mussorgsky
• Pictures at an Exhibition

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The Russian Five

• Alexander Borodin
• Polovetsian Dances

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The Russian Five

• Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
• Flight of the Bumble Bee
• opera Prince Igor

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The Russian Five

• Mily Balakirev

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The Russian Five

• Cesar Cui

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The Russian Five

• Mussorgsky
• Borodin
• Rimsky-Korsakov
• Balakirev
• Cui

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Scandinavia

• Edvard Grieg
• Jean Sibelius

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Edvard Grieg

• The Norwegian composer
• intense Norwegian nationalist
• depicted Norwegian life and countryside in music

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Edvard Grieg

• home is now a tourist attraction near Bergen,
  Norway
• Troldhaugen

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Edvard Grieg

• Henrick Ibsen, Norways most important playright
• A Dolls House
• hired Grieg to write music for a new play--Peer
  Gynt

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Edvard Grieg

• This was Griegs big break
• The music for the play Peer Gynt was the most
  successful Grieg ever had

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Czechoslovakia

• Anton Dvorak
• Bedrich Smetana

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Czechoslovakia

• Anton Dvorak
• Symphony From the New World
• lived and taught in USA

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Czechoslovakia

• Bedrich Smetana