Schumann

Question 1

What was he?

Answer 1

He was the first true romantic composer

Question 2

What did he have?

Answer 2

Turbulent personally combined with later mental instability

Question 3

Who did he love?

Answer 3

Clara Wieck

Question 3

What did he pick up on?

Answer 3

Picked up on what Schubert and Beethoven started, with respect to song cycles

Question 4

What was Schumann’s song cycle called?

Answer 4

Dichterliebe

Question 5

When was it composed?

Answer 5

Composed in 1840

Question 6

What does song 1 begin in?

Answer 6

E minor

Question 7

Tonality?

Answer 7

Ambiguous tonality

Question 8

Opening arpeggio?

Answer 8

Based around chord IV, with augmented 5th

Question 9

Then?

Answer 9

Unresolved chord V7 in bar 2

Question 10

Suspensions?

Answer 10

Bar 12

Question 11

Vocal phrases?

Answer 11

Are short and may sound unresolved

Question 12

At the end of the song 1?

Answer 12

Remains unfinished for sense of continuity, resolves in the first chord of the next song

Question 13

Next good song?

Answer 13

Song 6 - Im Rhine

Question 14

About?

Answer 14

River Rhine - flowing song

Question 15

What’s represents what?

Answer 15

Octave pedal notes at the beginning represent organ in a cathedral

Question 16

Bass?

Answer 16

Doubles vocals lines bars 1-8

Question 17

Step?

Answer 17

Wise movement

Question 18

Moderate?

Answer 18

Tessitura

Question 19

Instrumental use?

Answer 19

Lowest possible range

Question 20

Tonality?

Answer 20

Obvious D minor tonality

Question 21

Lower?

Answer 21

Vocal range

Question 22

Louder?

Answer 22

Dynamics

Question 23

Woman?

Answer 23

Is parallel to the picture of Virgin Mary

Question 24

Long?

Answer 24

Post lude

Question 25

Octaves?

Answer 25

In bass anticipate the next song

Question 26

Next good song?

Answer 26

Song 7 - Ich Grolle Nicht

Question 27

First good thing?

Answer 27

Dominant minor 9th

Question 28

For?

Answer 28

Heart break

Question 29

Long?

Answer 29

Word long is a minim, so text painting represented for word long

Question 30

Piano part?

Answer 30

Boldness of piano part conveys confidence of composer and poet

Question 31

Texture?

Answer 31

Hold piano texture, repeated chords and octaves

Question 32

Piano?

Answer 32

Lowest possible notes used

Question 33

Contrasts?

Answer 33

With the highest and loudest vocal tessitura in the whole song cycle during the climax

Question 34

Irony?

Answer 34

"I blame the not"

Question 35

How many times?

Answer 35

Repeated 6 times - so he actually does blame her, irony

Question 36

Anything good in song?

Answer 36

8

Question 37

What's cool?

Answer 37

Uses the Neapolitan chord 2 times

Question 38

Good?

Answer 38

Good piano texture

Question 39

Next good song?

Answer 39

Song 13

Question 40

Key?

Answer 40

Eb minor - death key in Schumann's songs

Question 41

Same as?

Answer 41

Song 2, same opening but semi tone lower

Question 42

Absence?

Answer 42

Of piano - q&a between piano and voice

Question 43

Narrow?

Answer 43

Vocal range

Question 44

At the end?

Answer 44

Brief moment of optimism, higher notes in the song

Question 45

Rhythm?

Answer 45

Hemiola, in 6/8 but sounds likes 3/4

Question 46

Next good song?

Answer 46

Final song, song 16

Question 47

Chords?

Answer 47

I, IV and V used

Question 48

So what?

Answer 48

Diatonic harmony for the first page

Question 49

Final song represents?

Answer 49

Sinking of sorrows into a coffin

Question 50

Steady?

Answer 50

Steady pace represents funeral march

Question 51

Text painting?

Answer 51

"Wide" octave leap

Question 52

How is it shown to be throwing something into the sea?

Answer 52

Intervals/leaps in the vocal line

Question 53

Long?

Answer 53

Post lude

Question 54

Sets?

Answer 54

Scene of coffin of sorrows and love floating away

Question 55

Final cadence?

Answer 55

Brings a close to the cycle