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A Lied is an art song for solo voice and piano sung in _____. |
German |
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A song form in which the same melody is repeated for each stanza, often heard in popular music, is known as _____. |
strophic form |
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A song form that is composed from beginning to end without repetitions of whole sections is in which form? |
through-composed form |
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According to legend, a child touched by the Elfking must die. |
false, whoever is touched by the king of the elves must die |
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Most Lied composers wrote their own words for the song. |
false, composers chose preexisting poetry for their musical settings |
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Romantic Lieder texts often speak of love and/or nature. |
false, the words were not spoken, they were conveyed through song |
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The piano was declining in popularity at the time of the Romantic Lied. |
false, the Lied was a time that involved piano accompaniment |
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Two prominent German Romantic poets whose texts were often set to music were Heinrich Heine and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. |
true |
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What is unusual about the ending of the song In the Lovely Month of May? |
it does not cadence on the tonic |
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Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Robert Schumann’s In the Lovely Month of May? |
it is in through composed form (NOT it is in strophic form, the poetry was written by Heine, it is for solo voice and piano) |
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