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Although the word timpani has been widely adopted in the English language, some English speakers choose to use the word kettledrums. [6] The German word for timpani is Pauken; the Swedish word is pukor in plural (from the word puka), the French and Spanish is timbales, not to be confused with the latin percussion instrument, which would ...
Liederkreis, Op. 24, is a song cycle for voice and piano composed by Robert Schumann on nine poems by Heinrich Heine.The cycle was composed and published in 1840. This song cycle was one of the earlier products of Schumann’s Liederjahr (Year of Song), referring to his nearly exclusive devotion to song composition from 1840-1841, immediately after his marriage to Clara Wieck.
Meaning respectively "measured song" or "figured song". Originally used by medieval music theorists, it refers to polyphonic song with exactly measured notes and is used in contrast to cantus planus. [3] [4] capo 1. capo (short for capotasto: "nut") : A key-changing device for stringed instruments (e.g. guitars and banjos)
The great age of German song came in the nineteenth century. With the flowering of German literature, German-speaking composers found more inspiration in poetry. [citation needed] Schubert found a new balance between words and music, a new expression of the sense of the words in and through the music.
Clearing Up: Coast of Sicily, Andreas Achenbach, 1847. Sturm und Drang (/ ˌ ʃ t ʊər m ʊ n t ˈ d r æ ŋ,-ˈ d r ɑː ŋ /, [1] German: [ˈʃtʊʁm ʔʊnt ˈdʁaŋ]; usually translated as "storm and stress" [2]) was a proto-Romantic movement in German literature and music that occurred between the late 1760s and early 1780s.
The New German School was a loose collection of composers and critics informally led by Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner who strove for pushing the limits of chromatic harmony and program music as opposed to absolute music which they believed had reached its limit under Ludwig van Beethoven.
Minnesang (German: [ˈmɪnəzaŋ] ⓘ; "love song") was a tradition of German lyric- and song-writing that flourished in the Middle High German period (12th to 14th centuries). The name derives from minne, the Middle High German word for love, as that was Minnesang's main subject.
The sensitive style (German: empfindsamer Stil) of music, developed in Germany, aimed to express "true and natural" feelings, in contrast to the baroque. The origin of sentimentalism in this context was chiefly religious, with the emotionally coloured keyboard music and lieder of Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach being typical examples