ERLKONIG: BY FRANZ SCHUBERT
This song is adapted from a poem by Goethe. It is called Erlkonig by the Austrian composer Franz P. Schubert. It is intensely filled with emotional expression, like many romantic era music. Both the conductor and the singer were intensely agitated, displaying intense emotions appropriate for this kind of music.
The song is about the death of a child possessed by an evil spirit. The repeated facial expressions and quick physical movements of both conductor and singer suggest the urgency of the emotionally latent situation of a dying child.
There are four voices, all in different vocal ranges. The piano plays the beat of the galloping horse. The narrator occupies the middle range, in the minor mode. The father takes the low range, and both minor and major mode.The son lies in the high range, in minor mode representing the fright of the child. The Erlkonig’s vocal line swings up and down. It is a great piece of music.
Schubert lived a short but highly productive life.
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There are four voices, all in different vocal ranges. The piano plays the beat of the galloping horse. The narrator occupies the middle range, in the minor mode. The father takes the low range, and both minor and major mode.The son lies in the high range, in minor mode representing the fright of the child. The Erlkonig’s vocal line swings up and down. It is a great piece of music.
Schubert lived a short but highly productive life.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=schubert+erlkonig&aq=7
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