Franz Schubert - Erlkönig (Sheet music and lyrics)
Why Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange recommends it
Music Stack Exchange answerers cite it as an example of Schubert's demanding piano writing, voice-role writing and a classic Lied with sheet music to follow along.
Recommended by 1 people across 1 different months, 2022 to 2024.
What it is
A 4-minute performance video of Schubert's Lied Erlkönig (D. 328), sung by tenor Daniel Norman with pianist Sholto Kynoch, shown with a scrolling score and lyrics. The description covers the song's history, its four characters sung by one voice, and its famous ostinato piano triplets.
What people said
Recommends BobRodes · 2022-02 · Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange · on “How long can a pianist maintain a repeated, fast figure in one hand?”
Like Aaron, I'm a skilled amateur, and had little difficulty picking up your passage. After experimenting with a couple of different fingerings, I could keep it up pretty much indefinitely at 80 with little to no fatigue. But hopefully, this is accompanying something a bit less repetitious, because otherwise, like Aaron, I would easily lose count of the repetitions. To give you a bit of perspective, Schubert's Erlkönig has what is considered one of the most difficult piano accompaniments in the repertoire, with relentless repeated notes throughout. Schubert was quite happy to write it anyway, nobody "killed" him for doing it (in fact, Liszt wrote a piano-only arrangement of it, because of co
Cites AlexJ · 2023-10 · Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange · on “What is the music theory term for the study of the role and rhythm of each voice in multi voice compositions?”
In short: There probably is not a specific term for this intersection of "musical role" and "rhythm". The nearest thing to what you describe would be analysis of style, or maybe directly analysis of rhythm itself. Part 0: Terminological clarification Now, the explanation must first start with a little correction in terminology. In polyphonic music, and even in homophonic music, terms such as "lead part" and "supporting part" are not the ones typically employed. In simple homophonic music, the ear will naturally tend towards the two extremes. Most frequently, the top voice is the "melody" (in a choral piece, this is also usually sung by the "soprano" section, so that's another term) while the
Cites phoog · 2024-01 · Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange · on “If you write a song by doing the lyrics first isn’t that technically starting with time (rhythm) rather than with pitch? Is the term for it phrasing?”
E.g, if you write out a 4 syllable word for one bar, the possible rhythms will inherently be different than if you use a 2 syllable word. So aren’t we essentially beginning with an element of time? By including "for one bar" in that example, you've already started to move beyond the elements of time and rhythm that are intrinsic to the lyrics: the constraint that these four syllables are to be contained in one bar is extrinsic. Another songwriter might put just one syllable in that bar and move the other three to the next one. Suppose you sit down to write a standard 32-bar song, the form that prevailed in popular music for most of the 20th century, and you decide to start with the lyrics. W