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Art Songs: Composers & Forms Explained

This document provides information about art songs and two prominent composers of art songs, Franz Schubert and Johannes Brahms. It defines art songs as compositions for solo voice and piano that can be in either through-composed or strophic form. It discusses Schubert and Brahms' contributions to art songs, with Schubert composing over 600 songs and Brahms studying earlier composers. Key works by each composer are also mentioned.

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Art Songs: Composers & Forms Explained

This document provides information about art songs and two prominent composers of art songs, Franz Schubert and Johannes Brahms. It defines art songs as compositions for solo voice and piano that can be in either through-composed or strophic form. It discusses Schubert and Brahms' contributions to art songs, with Schubert composing over 600 songs and Brahms studying earlier composers. Key works by each composer are also mentioned.

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Art Songs

And
Composers
Art Song
Is a composition for solo voice and
piano.
The German word for an art song is lied,
which is commonly used for German
text. Its plural word is lieder, which
pronounce “leader”.
Not restricted to strophic form or
through- composed form.
Art Songs can be
use :
Through- Composition
Form
Form that follows the thoughts of
the poem
The musical changes from stanza to
stanza in accordance with the
meaning of the words.
Strophic Form

Use the same music for each


stanza of the poem..
Almost always use in all folk
songs.
Two of leading art song and
Romantic Composers

Franz Peter Schubert


Johannes Brahms
Frenz Peter Schubert (1797-
1823), Austria
Frenz Peter Schubert (1797-
1823), Austria
A Viennese composer who is one of the
originators of the Romantic style and the
earliest master of art song.
Greatest post- classicists who serve as bridge
between two eras.
He composed music with so much passion.
He has composed more than 600 songs.
He chose music in expressing his musical
thoughts ,thus, created miniature dramas
Schubert’S beSt known
Musical Composition
The Winter Journey
The Millers’ Beautiful Daughters
To Sylvia
Gretchen at the spinning wheel,
The Wanderes
The Erl king
Serenade
Johannes Brahms(1833-
1897), Germany
Symphonies and
Orchestral works

Unfinished Symphony
Johannes Brahams(1833-
1897), Germany
He practically grew up in a world of music.
He took early lesson in piano.
He arranged music for his father’s orchestra
and played piano in local dance halls.
He spent many years as a conductor and
pianist.
He study of the music of earlier composers
added to the more conservative element of
his music.
Some of Works of
Brahms
German Requiem(1868)
Variations on a theme by: Hayden for
Orchestra(1873)
Wiegenlied or Lullaby
 God Bless You!
Submitted By:

IV Helium
(MUSIC)
Submitted TO:

Sir. Herbert
Dimapilis
(MAPEH Teacher IV)

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