Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems

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Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems provided by OpenLearn is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 16 hours worth of material. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from OpenLearn. The course is taught in Englishand is Free Certificate. Visit the course page at OpenLearn for detailed price information.

Overview
  • This free course, Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems, looks at the short poems in German that were set to music by Franz Schubert (17971828) for a single voice with piano, a genre known ...

Syllabus
    • Introduction
    • Learning outcomes
    • 1 Schubert: introduction
    • 1 Schubert: introduction
    • 2 Schubert and Vienna
    • 2 Schubert and Vienna
    • 2.1 Introduction
    • 2.2 Schubert and Johann Michael Vogl
    • 3 Schubert and the Lied
    • 3 Schubert and the Lied
    • 4 The songs
    • 4 The songs
    • 4.1 A note on the translations and scores
    • 4.1.1 ‘Heidenröslein’ (‘Wild Rose’, 1815) and ‘Wandrers Nachtlied’ (‘Wanderer's Night Song II’, 1822)
    • 4.2 Simplicity and complexity
    • 4.3 Voice and accompaniment
    • 4.3.1 ‘Gretchen am Spinnrade’ (‘Gretchen at the Spinning-Wheel’, 1814)
    • 4.4 ‘Erlkönig’ (‘The Erl-king’, 1815)
    • 4.5 Two mythological songs: ‘Prometheus’ (1819) and ‘Ganymed’ (1817)
    • 4.5.1 ‘Prometheus’
    • 4.5.2 ‘Ganymed’ (‘Ganymede’)
    • 5 Conclusion
    • 5 Conclusion
    • Discography
    • References
    • Further reading
    • Acknowledgements