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You’ve heard of opera, but have you ever seen an Art Song recital? It’s a special art form that brings together music and poetry—usually.
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.
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.
8 maj 2020 · Traditionally, art song is scored for voice and piano, but music genre rules have never been set in stone, especially during the experimental Romantic period. One early Lied-scoring exception is Schubert’s “Der Hirt auf dem Felsen “ D.965 (The Shepherd on the Rock), which is scored for voice, piano, and clarinet.
What is Lieder or Art Song? Lieder is the German word for ‘Songs’, but we use this word in English when referring to a special type of song which we call, ‘Art Songs’. Art Songs, as the name suggests, are songs that paint a picture in your imagination and tell a story.
Art song first appeared in the 18th century as a Western compositional style. Meant for performance in private homes, it brought singers and pianists together to interpret poetry set to music. Now, art song is a multilingual genre featuring the greatest cultural diversity in classical music.
25 paź 2015 · Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, by far the most praised exponent of the art of lieder, adds levels of emotional shading through his careful attention to the texts, and includes in this program a set of songs (Op. 83) setting poems by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, whose work was important in raising the quality of texts used in lieder.
