Song Cycles Of Schumann

The symphony is in four very powerful and entertaining movements. The first movement begins in the pianissimo tone with the strings section, but quickly enters the fortissimo tone with the introduction of the woodwind, brass and percussion sections. The dynamics of the musical melody varies throughout the movement moving from crescendo to decrescendo modes. The first movement reminds you of a raging storm from soft blowing winds to thunder and lighting. The audience is mesmerized by this first movement of the sonata.

The tone of the poem changes as the poem progresses. The poem begins with energetic language like “full of heroic tales” and “by a mere swing to his shoulder”. The composer also uses hyperboles like “My father began as a god” and “lifted me to heaven”. The use of this positive language indicates to the responder that the composer is longing for those days – he is nostalgic. It also highlights the perspective of a typical child. The language used in the middle of the poem is highly critical of his father: “A foolish small old man”. This highlights the perspective of a typical teenager and signifies that they have generally conflicting views. The language used in the last section of the poem is more loving and emotional than the rest: “...revealing virtues such as honesty, generosity, integrity”. This draws attention to a mature adult’s perspective.

The beginning of the piece, mm1-14, has longer rhythms in which notes mainly fluctuate between half note or whole note values. The only occurrence of textual and rhythmic alignment is in mm 4-5 between the bass and alto in the word “despatch”. So not only do these long notes emphasize the melancholic mood of the text, but so does the

Compare how the poets present love in “Nettles” and in one other poem from the Relationships cluster.

Both the poems have the theme of love, written from a man’s point of view, and explores the way men treat woman in relationships. The former does this by a male narrator writing a poem to a female, using imagery to entice her. The latter by using a duke, explaining the story of what happened to his previous wife whilst looking at her picture. Both the poems use imagery and other poetic devices but in different ways. The first uses them more often to impress her. The second uses them in a

The most common element found within both pieces of literature is that both women seem to be greatly selfish.

When Clara was around 5 her parents divorced, she then lived with her father.Having a divorce was super

The stark, thirdless, parallel chords in particular set the mood for the speaker’s utter desolation over lost love. Against the march-like, duple-divided beat of the bass (bars five through ten), the rhythmic setting of the vocal line contains not only dotted rhythms that articulate the desolation of the speaker’s reality, but also hints of lulling triplets, which are soon featured prominently to describe the speaker’s dream state. With the line “Dark to me are the heavens,” triplets fall in bar ten just prior to the lengthy, even, setting of the word “heavens” in the vocal line. The dotted rhythms sound angular and harsh, suggesting the pain of reality, while the triplet figure softly lulls, evoking the hope of the heavens and the realm of fantasy and

Music of Robert Schumann embodies many of the most characteristic features of German Romanticism – deep psychological insight, aspiration for the ideal, intimacy, irony and bitterness. Advanced aesthetic tendencies of German culture in the period of 1820-40s found vivid expression in his music. In contradictions, which are inherent in Schumann’s music, reflected the complex contradictions of the social life from his time. His music is filled with a restless, rebellious spirit that puts him in the same line with Byron, Heine, Goethe, Wagner and others. However, the theme of rebellion in the music of Schumann has a psychological, but very lyrical representation. Compared to Heinrich Heine, Victor Hugo, and Ludwig Van Beethoven who viewed the world through the prism of social injustice, Schumann did not aim towards social revolt. The greatest part of his diverse heritage was his personal “confession” in music. Schumann’s piano music, for instance, Kreisleriana, Op.16 and the Symphonic Etudes, op.13, are truly a musical encyclopedia of the human soul with many nuances and tones, with shades of colors of joy, sorrow, anguish, doubt and struggle, dreams and anxieties, rush, despair, faith and courage.

This would be inappropriate as the Three Secretaries await the return of their captor. Instead, Adams (an avid student of Schubert’s work) uses word setting to grasp the audience’s attention. The final three stanzas are a repetition of the same four lines as the sixth. The mezzo soprano’s comfortably deliver perfect timbre and texture, during a heightened register expanding their tessitura. Repetition of the recitative emphasises the message of ‘Young as We Are’ which ends with an abrupt double entendre suggesting either a return of their captor or the death of an injured

The tempo throughout the song varies from adagio to allegro, but favors the allegro speed in most of the piece. As most of us have agreed, this specific movement is very repetitive in texture and tone. We believe repetition is a main them in the song to help the listener get a feel for the piece and help them memorize it better. As the melody progresses, the tone and volume of the piece make a drastic change. It slows down as to show the time of year is slowing. No longer are children running and playing outside, it portrays winter being right around the corner. The tone continues to fall lower, giving the listener a feel of sorrow, as if death is in the air. The visualization of leaves falling is imprinted in the listeners mind. Then suddenly, the tempo rapidly picks up and jumps right back into the main chorus, which is abruptly cut short. The tune firmly begins to build up as it almost lullabies the listener through the composition, while the volume steadily increases. I can picture myself swaying in the wind to the cool fall breeze as the sun sets on the warm colors of the fall leaves. Just as the lullaby seems to pick up in pace, it slowly fades in to the distance. Once again the volume of the piece quickly increases and has the listener on the edge of their seat as joy fills the air. The pitch jumps from low to high between each instrument as they begin to

1 is drawn out and played in the key of G minor, emphasizing the emotion conveyed in the piece. The Romantic period focussed more on emotion, intuition, and nature, which is very similar to the entire tone of the Mendelssohn’s piece. The piece has a wide variety of notes, with many being short while others are long drawn out. These longer notes evoke more emotion to the listener because hanging onto minor notes just evokes more sadness towards us. In addition, this makes the piece very dramatic, with goes into the theme of deep caring for emotion. The Romantic period always preferred more chaos or disorder than control. Therefore, it makes sense how this piece almost has a sense of chaos, with at some points seemingly being all over the

Eusebius is the fifth movement of the Carnaval. It is in E-flat, and it depicts the calm and beautiful side of Schumann, characterized by septuplets. The notes from “ASCH” make up almost the entire melody in the first bar in the right hand. Having experienced degrees of schizophrenia, Schumann gave names to his two personalities. Eusebius is the name he gave to his introspective, dreamy side- clearly shown in this quiet

Although they both hold Petrarch's poem as the origin, they show the difference in the effects of the Neo-Platonism during the Renaissance. The notion that the need for love still existed, but the idea that perfect love could never exist was what basically what drove the entirety of their ideas, and what made them stream from the Petrarchan idea of idealistic love. Both authors while focusing on the idea that love can not be idealized show in their own depictions two different views of that love. They portray the means of keeping love or holding onto love with two different mind sets and basically help to back up the notion idealized love can not truly exist and can not be a product of only perfection.

Both poems contain declarations of love and both attempt to persuade in a personal way. Also both Poems offer gifts or nice promises to they’re women if they are to cooperate.