Music & Txt Madrigals & Lieder

•Text secondary to music

•Music servant of text

•text shapes the music

Two Views

•Text expression

•Text depiction

•Poetry vs Prose

“El Grillo” (The Cricket)

El grillo è buon cantoreChe tienne longo verso.Dalle beve grillo cantaEl grillo è buon cantore.Ma non fa come gli altri uccelli,Come li han cantato un poco,Van' de fatto in altro locoSempre el grillo sta pur saldo.Quando la maggior è 'l caldoAl'hor canta sol per amore.El grillo è buon cantoreChe tienne longo verso.Dalle beve grillo canta.El grillo è buon cantore.

The cricket is a good singerWho can hold a long line.Of drinking the cricket singsThe cricket is a good singer.But he doesn't do what birds do:After they've sung a bit,They go somewhere else;The cricket always stays put.And when the weather is hottestHe sings solely for love.The cricket is a good singerWho can hold a long line.Of drinking the cricket sings.The cricket is a good singer.

•Cricket can sing long notes

•Cricket can stay in one place

•Birds flit around

•Cricket can sing drinking or love songs

El grillo è buon cantoreChe tienne longo verso.Dalle beve grillo cantaEl grillo è buon cantore.Ma non fa come gli altri uccelli,Come li han cantato un poco,Van' de fatto in altro locoSempre el grillo sta pur saldo.Quando la maggior è 'l caldoAl'hor canta sol per amore.El grillo è buon cantoreChe tienne longo verso.Dalle beve grillo canta.El grillo è buon cantore.

The cricket is a good singerWho can hold a long line.Of drinking the cricket singsThe cricket is a good singer.But he doesn't do what birds do:After they've sung a bit,They go somewhere else;The cricket always stays put.And when the weather is hottestHe sings solely for love.The cricket is a good singerWho can hold a long line.Of drinking the cricket sings.The cricket is a good singer.

An example of word-painting in “The Cricket” is

on the word(s):?

•1) buon (good)

•2) cantore (singer)

•3) uccelli (birds)

•4) longo verso (long line)

The Madrigal

The Madrigal

•Most important secular genre in Renaissance

•emphasis on text

•3, 4, or 5 voices

•Amateur enjoyment

The poetry

•Single stanza (verse)

•“Highbrow” poetry

•sentimental and/or erotic

The Music

•Extreme attention to words

•word-painting

•homophonic, polyphonic

•instruments sometimes

Renaissance English madrigals represent music

from the time of?

•1) Chaucer

•2) Dickens

•3) Shakespeare

•4) King Arthur

•Italy first, then England

As Vesta was from Latmos hill descending

She spied a maiden queen the same

ascending,

Attended on by all the shepherd’s swain;

To whom Diana’s darlings came running

down amain.

First two by two, then three by three

together

Leaving their Goddess all alone, hasted

thither;

And mingling with the shepherds of her

train,

With mirthful tunes her presence did

entertain.

Then sang the shepherds and nymphs of

Diana:

Long live fair Oriana!!

Thomas Weelkes

• 1575-1623

• Elizabeth I, James I

• sacred and secular

• dismissed for drunkenness

Weelkes, “Since Robin Hood”

•About dancing, William Kemp

•Shifts from duple to triple

•word-painting

•melody preexisting dance tune

Since Robin Hood, Maid Marian,And Little John are gone,The hobby horse was quite forgot,When Kemp did dance alone.He did labour after the tabor.For to dance then into France.He took pains to skip itIn hope of gains.He did trip it on the toe,Diddle diddle diddle doe.

Since Robin Hood, Maid Marian,And Little John are gone,The hobby horse was quite forgot,When Kemp did dance alone.He did labour after the tabor.For to dance then into France.He took pains to skip itIn hope of gains.He did trip it on the toe,Diddle diddle diddle doe.

---iambic: short--LONG--trochaic: LONG--short

--anapestic: short--short--LONG

“Since Robin Hood” has more

than one:•1) poem

•2) meter

•3) language

•4) composer

When the meaning of a word or group of words is

highlighted musically, this is called?

•1) Word-painting

•2) Perspective

•3) Strophic form

•4) Meter

Nineteenth-century Song

Lied (Lieder)

strophic

through-composed

modified strophic

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

Robert & Clara Schumann

“Dedication” (1840)

How many different sections of music are there in “Dedication”?

•1) one

•2) two

•3) three

•4) four

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Schubertiad

The German term used for 19th century song for solo

voice and piano is:

1.Erlkönig

2.ballad

3.aria

4.Lied

When all verses are set to the same music

it is called:?

•1) through-composed

•2) strophic

Der Erlkönig (The Elfking)

“Erlkönig”: Reichardt

N

FSF

E

FS

poem by Goethe

ES

F

ES

N

“Erlkönig”: Schubert

N

FSF

E

FS

poem by Goethe

ES

F

ES

N

Construction of Meaning in the Lied

musical

verbal singer

piano

poet

composer

In Schubert’s “Erlkönig,” each strophe of the poem

is set to: _____.

1.the same music

2.different music, with some elements returning

In Schubert’s “Erlkönig,” the piano part suggests

the ______.

1.wind in the trees

2.father’s voice

3.horse’s gallop

4.Erlkönig’s presence

“Im Wunderschönen Monat Mai”

from DichterliebeRobert Schumann