Traumerei (Continued - formal analysis and beyond).
At age 14, Schumann wrote an essay on the aesthetics of music and also contributed to a volume, edited by his father, titled Portraits of Famous Men. While still at school in Zwickau, he read the works of the German poet-philosophers Schiller and Goethe, as well as Byron and the Greek tragedians.
Schumann conveys a somewhat happy and content aura by his high and gentle pitch with less forceful dynamics as the melody progresses in sections B. Section C has the largest pitch range, varying from low moving chords to higher moving chords as the pitch progresses.
Essays and criticism on Robert Schumann - Criticism. SOURCE: Brion, Marcel. “Chapter 7.” In Schumann and the Romantic Age, translated by Geoffrey Sainsbury, pp. 148-67. New York: Macmillan.
SCHUMANN - KINDERSZENEN NO. 1. Steps 2 and 3 - Identify the Surface Voice Leading and Root Progression Patterns. As the surface voice leading in this piece is fairly simple, we can examine the voice leading and reveal the underlying root progressions in one step. If you are not familiar with voice leading analysis, I suggest you first read the Voice Leading Appendix.
As a test case this computational model has been used for obtaining a motivic analysis of Schumann's Trumerei. Keywords: motivic analysis, musical categories, similarity, clustering 1.
Clara Wieck-Schumann: Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 17, movement 1 (for component 3: Appraising) Background information and performance circumstances The composer Clara (Wieck) Schumann was born in Leipzig, Germany, in 1819 and died in Frankfurt in 1896. She was best known in her lifetime as a concert pianist, but her reputation as a.
The 13 pieces that constitute Robert Schumann's Kinderszenen for piano (Scenes from Childhood), Op. 15 (1838) showcase their creator's musical imagination at the peak of its poetic clarity. As a result, the Kinderszenen have long been staples of the repertoire as utterly charming yet substantial miniatures, the sort of compact keyboard essays in which Schumann's genius found full expression.