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An art song is a Western vocal music composition, usually written for one voice with piano accompaniment, and usually in the classical art music tradition. By extension, the term "art song" is used to refer to the collective genre of such songs (e.g., the "art song repertoire"). [1]
Another term that one encounters in the field of art song or Lieder is: accompanist. Usually that is a pianist. And there is the perception that the pianist is just a voice in the background to support the singer.
Kunstlied is the proper term for "art song" in German, but music-lovers speaking English or French commonly refer to German art songs as just plain Lieder. Note that this site includes art songs in many languages (e.g., in French, the terms chanson and mélodie are used as well as lieder ).
24 cze 2023 · In English, they get the rather grandiose title of ‘art song’, to distinguish them from popular vocal music and folksong. In German, they’re known as lieder. In French they’re mélodies.
16 lip 2023 · Art songs have been composed in many languages, and are known by several names. The German tradition of art song composition is perhaps the most prominent one; it is known as Lieder . In France, the term Mélodie distinguishes art songs from other French vocal pieces referred to as chansons.
There followed the establishment of different schools of art song in Russia, Britain and America together with great poets like Pushkin, Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson. The Nordic lands, Spain and Italy too made their significant contributions.
The LiederNet Archive is the world’s largest reference archive of texts and translations of art songs and choral works. We have been online since May 24, 1995. 204,981 vocal pieces have been catalogued. 43,538 translations are available. The collection has frequent additions and updates (this month: 178 song texts, 258 settings, and 99 ...
