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Art songs are compositions for solo voice and piano written in the classical art music tradition—not folk or popular styles—and contain a setting of a poem. The German art song tradition is the most prominent and, thus, the German term, lied or lieder (plural), is often used instead of art song.
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.
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.
Lotte Lehmann was renowned for her Lieder interpretations, but what does the word Lieder mean? It means simply German art songs. Here’s art song’s brief description: a poem set to music, usually for trained voice and piano with a duration of about three minutes. Other English words are solo song, art-song, artsong, classical song, piano ...
25 paź 2015 · Mainstream listeners often overlook Beethoven's lieder amid the richness of his more famous output, but the six-song An die ferne Geliebte (To the distant beloved), composed in 1816, is considered the first song cycle and thus is historically important to connoisseurs of song.
12 lut 2019 · Art song is a genre of secular vocal music with roots which can be traced back to the Middle Ages. In Shakespeare's England, for example, the poetry and music of the English Renaissance were brought into madrigals and other musical forms by Elizabethan composers such as John Dowland.
5 wrz 2008 · Directed toward students in both voice and theory, and toward all singers, the authors establish a framework for the analysis of song based on a process of performing, listening, and analyzing, designed to give the reader a new understanding of the reciprocal interaction between performance and analysis.
