Art Song - The Erlking

Art song is a musical composition for

• Multiple voices

• Solo voice and piano

• Solo voice and orchestra

• All of the above

German word for song

• Aria

• Lieder

• Chanson

Art Song is a fusion of:

• Music and imagery

• Music and dance

• Poetry and music

Tick the common themes often heard in Art Song

• Love

• Loss

• Nature

• Supernatural

• Myths

Strophic Form is a song structure in which the same music is repeated with every stanza (strophe) of the poem

• True

• False

The form of The Erlking is:

• Strophic

• Modified Strophic

• Through-composed

• None of these

When each stanza is set to new music rather than in a strophic manner is called what?

(a)  

A group of art songs unified by a story line that runs through their poems, or by musical ideas linking the songs is called a...

• Song set

• Song cycle

• Song group

• Song suite

The Erlking, in Schubert's song of that name, is a romantic personification of...

• Death

• Sickness

• Life

The mood of an art song is often set by a brief piano introduction and summed up at the end by a piano section called a (a)