"The Beautiful Mill Girl", "Wild Rose", "Prometheus", "The Devil", "Trout", "The Linden Tree", "Swan Song", "Unfinished Symphony" Song", "Death and the Maiden", "Trout", "Winterreise", "Stray Dogs" and so on.
1. "The Beautiful Mill Girl"
The Beautiful Mill Girl narrates the process of longing for and disillusionment with love of an innocent boy of seventeen or eighteen years old. A wandering boy met the mill owner's daughter at a mill by the river. Because of her beauty, he stopped wandering and hoped that the emotion contained in his heart would have a happy ending. However, this longing made a sudden arrival of a hunter Crush.
The infatuated boy began to exile himself with the complicated emotions of worrying about gain and loss, love and hate. He walked along the river bank. The disillusionment of love made him miserable, and finally he had to die for love and throw himself into the embrace of a small stream. The music written by Schubert makes this exquisite "song novel" very touching.
When Schubert was creating, he gave each character a fixed tone. For example, a small stream is expressed in the key of G major. This stream led him into a whirlpool of love, listened to his whispers, and provided him with the final destination of his life. When the mood is happy, the grinder is expressed in the key of C major, and when the mood is sad, the relative minor key of C major is used, A minor. When describing the happiness of love, it must be in the key of A major, and the appearance of the hunter is in the key of C minor.
2. "Death and the Maiden"
"Death and the Maiden" (also known as "String Quartet No. 14 in D minor"), a work by the Austrian composer Franz ·The string quartet composed by Franz Schubert is divided into four major movements. This quartet, in D minor, opus number D810, is titled because the theme of the second movement is similar to Schubert's 1817 song "Death and the Maiden". It was composed between 1824 and 1826 and premiered on February 1, 1826 at the home of Joseph Barthes in Vienna.
3. "Winter Journey"
Schubert's "Winter Journey" is the most important continuous suite in German art song literature, with its perfect combination of poetry and music. , the mutual complementation of vocal music and piano, and the balance of musical beauty and depth have all reached a peak.
The only ones that can be compared with it are "The Beautiful Mill Girl" and Schumann's "Poet's Love", "Women's Love and Life" and "Suite Op. 39", but they are all in terms of scale. Not as big and plump as it is. In order to express the emotion of the original poem, the composer processed the rhythm, melody, texture, and tonality according to the emotion of the original poem. Make it more emotionally appealing.
4. "The Devil"
A ballade composed by Schubert based on Goethe's poem of the same name. Austrian composer Schubert is a famous Romantic composer. He composed more than 600 songs in his life and created a new era in the development of art songs. "The Devil", as his important representative work, has high artistic value. This article attempts to discuss the characteristics of each musical element in the work from multiple perspectives and briefly analyze the stylistic characteristics of the work's creation. ?
The Austrian composer Schubert created it in 1815 based on Goethe's poem of the same name. The author was only 18 years old at the time, and this ballade was compiled as Opus No. 1. The storyline of the whole poem: The father is riding a horse in the dark forest with a child suffering from high fever in his arms. The devil in the forest keeps tempting the child, and the child screams in surprise, and finally dies in the arms of his father.
The song adopts the notation technique, which is completed in one go and has great momentum. The four different roles of the narrator, father, child and devil in the poem are reflected by different tones. The author fully demonstrates the dramatic plot. For example, the piano accompaniment simulates the rhythm of galloping horses throughout the song, and the sound of wind played by the bass depicts the sardonic and aggressive scene of the cold wind in the forest at night, setting off a dull and fearful atmosphere. The author also imitates the child's exclamation with a small second upward stroke, vividly depicting the child's increasingly frightened expression.
5. "Trout"
"Trout Quintet", "King of Songs" Schubert composed the famous art song "Trout" in 1817.
This work for piano, bass, medium, violin and double bass is divided into five movements, with the fourth movement being the most famous. In the song of the original work, the author first vividly described the lovely image of trout swimming happily in the clear stream with a happy mood; then, the trout was caught by the hunter, and the author was deeply dissatisfied. The author uses the narrative method of stanzas to express his infinite sympathy and regret for the fate of Trout, revealing the profound meaning of the lyrics: kindness and simplicity are often harmed by hypocrisy and evil.
Schubert’s A major quintet is different from the usual piano quintet. It is not the standard form of piano plus string quartet, but piano with violin, viola, cello and double bass. A combination of four string instruments, that is, the second violin is missing from the standard form and replaced by a double bass. Furthermore, this piece has five movements, which is also unusual. Because the fourth movement uses the melody of Schubert's song "Trout" as its theme and variations, this piece is commonly known as "Trout Quintet".
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