Was Franz Schubert a notated traditional music composer?
Instead of oral tradition, was Franz Schubert a notated tradition composer.. Did he use Art Songs, the definition of Art Song is: Notated (written down) musical setting of a text authored by a known composer who consciously seeks to develop expressive connections between poetry & music.
I have to write a essay on a notated tradition composer and I want to use him because in class we learned about him. So, I want to make sure he is a notated composer. Please help thanks!
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June 17th, 2010 at 12:04 pm
Yes, you are correct. Franz Schubert was a composer within the tradition of notated music. He is considered by many to be the greatest master of the art song, so it sounds like you made a good choice.
June 20th, 2010 at 11:20 am
If you are writing about art songs, then you could have no better example than Schubert. In his tragically short live of only 31 years, Schubert wrote more than 600 songs – many of them the finest examples of their genre. They are known as ‘Lied’ (capital ‘L’ because it’s a German noun – plural ‘Lieder’), which is only German for ’song’.
And yes, he is most definitely a notated composer. You have made your task a lot easier by choosing this great writer of songs. Happy coincidence, eh?
June 21st, 2010 at 6:32 am
I just finished telling you all I know about Puccini’s art songs.
But if you choose Schubert, here are two interesting goodies which you shouldn’t miss:
–The Trout Quintet is so-called because it was commissioned by a musician who liked Schuibert’s song by that title (op. 32). Hew commissioned the work on the condition that Schubert would include the melody somewhere in the work.
So Schubert wrote a theme and variations on the song in the fourth movement.
–The Death and the Maiden quartet is so-called because Schubert reused the melody for his song by that title in the second movement.