In a treatise on German Romantics music in 19 centurys we can not disregard the new tide of liberalism which became the back ground though of that time in place of Absolutism.
The general tendency of the music in this age was to give up the grand co...
In a treatise on German Romantics music in 19 centurys we can not disregard the new tide of liberalism which became the back ground though of that time in place of Absolutism.
The general tendency of the music in this age was to give up the grand composition and accurate formalism of the classicism and to express in songs more simple and hearty feelings of human.
While the classicism described the world and cossmos so magnificently, Romanticism were rather familiar with the daily life of people and human innocent emotions.
Another character of the 19 century Romanticism is its nationalism which is contrasted with the inter nationalism of the classicism.
Schubert, the King of song, expressed the romanticism as well as nationalism to the best perfection.
In a nationalistic music, one's mother tongue is considered important, and also one's national literature.
No music is more related with the literature than the German Lied which makes a new way through the cannetion of beth. Lied had used to be just popular, but in 18 century it became to be artistic and through Schubert it got the same artistic value as Symphony or Sonta.
As Schubert's Lieds are composed of the poem and music (80 Songs out of Schubert's 600 Lieds are composed after Gothe's poems.)
The music was composed after the poem was written. So the composer needs to get
accqusinted with the meaning and nuance of the poems the express their images melody and rhythm before be composes.
The Lieds of "Die Forelle" gives the very good example how he changes the words
and lyrics of the poem into musical symbels.
But it doesn't mean that the syntax of the poems are too much dominant over the
music, but the poem and music are put into the very artistic dimension.
Schubert is said to have given the proper tunes and rhythms to the poems, as if the poems had been written for the songs.
So his certain melody or rhythms has a specific meaning and indicates certain emotion or thoughts, while a Mozart's rhythm doesn't indicate any certain emotion.
We also find that Schubert traid to avoid the formal pattern and show the naive and liberal description and the familiar understanding.
He was a liberalist who prescribed the forms of songs according to the structures of poems.
The character of German Lieds lives in the technical method which human emotions and thoughts are expressed so vividly and friendly as a novelist would narrate a story and a painter would sketch a picture.