A Level Music: Kinderscenen by Schumann (Overview)
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- Created on: 12-06-14 14:50
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- Kinderscenen, Movements No 1, 3 and 11 by Schumann
- Background
- Written in 1838 aged 28
- Piano minatures
- Scenes from Childhood
- Collection of 13 short pieces
- Written at time of change (romantic perod): programme music, daring compositional techniques
- Music ABOUT children, not for them to play
- Reflection of his own personal life: law battle to marry Clara
- Resources
- Piano
- Major changes to instrument
- Iron frame: greater resonance and sustaining power
- Use of felt rather than leather to cover hammers: altered tone to mellower, less strident quality
- Way piano was played change as result of these improvements
- More virtuosic playing: concerts, recitals
- Sustaining pedal
- Structure
- Rounded binary form: typical form for baroque dance movements
- Nostalgic simplicity
- Tonality
- Functional
- Modulations to related keys
- Harmony
- Functional
- Clearly defined cadences
- Mainly diatonic harmony with occasional chromatic chords
- Rhythm
- Simple rhythms typically established and maintained for a whole piece
- Romantic composers base a pieceof a single rhythmic and expressive idea which embraces melody and accompaniment
- This naturally leads to shorter pieces (capturing a mood in a single phrase)
- Romantic composers base a pieceof a single rhythmic and expressive idea which embraces melody and accompaniment
- Simple rhythms typically established and maintained for a whole piece
- Metre
- Duple time signatures for all three pieces
- Other pieces in set use simple triple and quadruple
- Duple time signatures for all three pieces
- Textures
- Melody dominated homophony
- Melody
- Diatonic melodies
- Balanced phrasing as these are 'songs without words' that could accompany lines of lyric poetry
- Background
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