Take me to your

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Chapter 17

• (Take me to your)
• Lieder

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Lieder

• Strophic
• uses the same melody for each verse
• Modified strophic
• uses the same melody, with modifications, for
  each verse
• Through Composed
• uses new music for each verse

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Ballad

• long poem
• romantic adventures
• supernatural events

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Schubert - invented lieder

• Gretchen am Spinnrade
• Der Doppelgänger
• Song Cycles
• Schwanengesang
• Winterreise

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Gretchen am Spinnrade, D. 118

• Lied
• Through Composed (ABACADA)
• rondo
• constant whir of spinning wheel in piano
• Gretchens agitation
• up and down figuration represents the treadle
• 16ths stop for the memory of Fausts kiss

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Der Lindenbaum from Winterreise, D. 911

• Lied from a song cycle
• Through Composed (AABA)
• About a failed summer romance
• folksong style melody
• opening triplet figure represents wind blowing
• horn call (m2) is nature and the outdoors

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Robert Schumann

• successor to Schubert
• Dichterliebe - song cycle of unrequited love

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Im wunderschönen Monat Mai from Dichterliebe, Op.
48

• Lied from a song cycle
• Strophic
• poem by Heinrich Heine
• unrequited love

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Ich grolle nicht from Dichterliebe, Op. 48

• Lied from a song cycle
• Modified Strophic
• poem by Heinrich Heine
• unrequited love

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Geheimes Flüstern hier und dort, Op. 23, No. 3 by
Clara Schumann

• Lied
• Strophic
• descending arpeggios represent rustling leaves
  and branches

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Brahms

• Wiegenlied
• Vier ernst gesang

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Hugo Wolf

• Followed Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms as the
  4th great romantic composer of lieder.

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Chapter 17

• Choral Music

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Roles

• Support roles in operas, oratorios and symphonies
• Part-songs
• Cantatas
• Church Music
• Cecilian Movement - after St. Cecelia, Roman
  Catholic patron saint of music
• inspired Schuberts Masses

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Music on Liturgical texts

• Berlioz Grande Messe des Morts (Requiem)
• Te Deum
• Rossini, Stabat Mater
• Verdi, Requiem

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Anton Bruckner

• Masses
• Motets
• Te Deum

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Virga Jesse by Anton Bruckner

• Motet
• a cappella
• uses text (word) painting
• chromatic harmony

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How lovely are your dwelling places from Ein
deutsches Requiem by Brahms

• German non-liturgical text
• meditative
• not specific to any religion

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Oratorios

• Mendelssohn, modeled after Handel
• St. Paul
• Elijah