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Unit 7 (Chapter 36 (Lieder: Plural of Lied. (page 206), song cycle: Group…

- - - - solo voice and piano
    - - Song structure in which the same music is repeated with every stanza (strophe) of the poem.
      - In the Lovely Month of May has two stanzas of text
    - - music sounds unresolved at the end
  - - - tune is first played by strings and then by full orchestra with tambourine
    - - homophonic texture,
      - lively dance tune
  - - - A Lied is a German song for solo voice and piano.
      - fast rhythms played by the piano in this Lied convey the galloping horse ridden by the father and son, as well as the urgency the father feels as he holds his son close
      - only one singer communicates the words of four different characters
        
        used a different vocal range and/or key for each character.
    - - Song structure that is composed from beginning to end, without repetitions of large sections.
  - - - short motivic ideas alternating and combined with dissonant chords with irregular accents
      - The tempo speeds up over the course of the three large sections as the characters dancing in the ballet move more frenetically.
    - - bassoon plays in a disjunct melody in a very high range, accompanied by pizzicato strings.
    - - pizzicato motive from the Introduction returns several times in the second section.
    - - played frenetically by woodwinds and high trumpet
  - - - four voices singing a cappella, with no accompaniment
    - - made up of short repeated sections
  - - - symphonic poem is filled with lyrical melodies.
      - lyrical melodies and variations on them with free-flowing rhythms.
    - - There is no strong pulse, which creates a dreamy atmosphere
      - in the more rhythmically animated sections, the pulse speeds up and slows down.
    - - Impressionist, timbrally rich, rhythmically free
      - solo flute, rumbling strings, horn, and oboe crescendo into bowed strings
- - - - Christmas party
        
        Clara receives a Nutcracker from her godfather
        
        Clara dreams the Nutcracker becomes her Prince
        
        Travel through magical & exotic places