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''Lied'' (plural '''''Lieder''''') is a German word, literally meaning " Song "; among English speakers, however, it is used primarily as a term for Europe an Classical Music Song s, also known as Art Song s. Typically, ''Lieder'' are arranged for a single singer and Piano . Sometimes ''Lieder'' are gathered in a ''Liederkreis'' or " Song Cycle " – a series of songs tied by a single narrative or theme. The composers Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann are most closely associated with this genre of classical music. Since the German word ''Lied'' simply means “song,” Germans use the more specific term '''''Kunstlied''''' to refer to this. HISTORY Amongst German speakers, the term ''Lied'' has a much older and longer history, ranging from 12th Century Troubadour songs ('' Minnesang '') via folk songs (''Volkslieder'') and church hymns (''Kirchenlieder'') to 20th-century Satirical or Protest Song s (''Kabarettlieder, Protestlieder''). In Germany , the great age of song came in the 19th Century . German and Austria n composers had written music for voice with accompaniment before then, but it was with the flowering of German Literature in the Classical and Romantic Eras that composers found high inspiration in Poetry that created the genre known as the ''Lied''. The beginnings of this tradition are seen in the songs of Mozart and Beethoven , but it is with Schubert that a new balance is found between words and music, a new absorption into the music of the sense of the words. Schubert wrote over 600 songs, some of them in sequences or Song Cycle s that relate a story – adventure of the soul rather than the body. The tradition was continued by Schumann , Brahms , and Hugo Wolf , and on into the 20th Century by Strauss and Mahler . The body of song created in the ''Lied'' tradition, like that of the Italian Madrigal three centuries before, represents one of the richest products of human sensibility. OTHER NATIONAL TRADITIONS The ''Lied'' tradition is closely linked with the actual sound of the German Language . But there are parallels elsewhere noticeably in France , with the melodies of such composers as Fauré , Debussy and Francis Poulenc , and in Russia , with the songs of Mussorgsky in particular. England too had a flowering of song in the 20th Century represented by Vaughan Williams and Benjamin Britten . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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