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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 ).
16 lip 2023 · 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.
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 ...
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.
22 kwi 2020 · This term “art song” is fraught with difficulty, (what is “art”, for example?), but suffice to say that Lieder comprise a very specific, very important, and very intense, part of the musical world. They inhabit in music a similar position to that held by poetry in the larger context of literature.
