Goethe Settings By Johann Friedrich Reichardt and Carl Friedrich Zelter: Text, Music and Performance Possibilities Page: I
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Moore, Wes C., Goethe Settings by Johann Friedrich Reichardt and Carl Friedrich Zelter:
Text, Music and Performance Possibilities. Doctor of Musical Arts (Performance), August 2012,
99 pp., 34 examples, references, 104 titles.
The connection between text, music, and performance in the lieder of the late eighteenth
and early nineteenth centuries is an integral aspect to fully comprehending the style and
performance of the genre. It is also essential in order to understand the full development of the
lied in its totality. The era represented a transitional period in musical development, influenced
by Enlightenment values of elegance, good taste, simplicity, and naturalness which sought to
eradicate the overly decorative "excesses" of the high-Baroque. In this study, emphasis is placed
upon the unique development of the lied in the northern German regions by the composers
Johann Friedrich Reichardt and Carl Friedrich Zelter and their musical settings of the lyric poetry
of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
The study also addresses the overall development of the genre as it progressed from the
Baroque through Classicism/Neo-Classicism, Sturm und Drang, and into Romanticism exploring
the musical settings and performance possibilities both then and now in the context of the
various treatises and correspondence between the composers and poet. It seeks to effectively
address the notion that these early songs were composed and performed by those versed in the
ideal of music being an improvisatory/dramatic vehicle for expressing emotion and textual
meaning. In opera, and to a lesser extent other vocal idioms, musico-dramatic excesses occurred
in the late Baroque and the cult of the singer reigned. However, the reforms which led to the
new aesthetic of naturalness did not suddenly end this improvisatory vocal performance practice.
The musical complexity of the lied was gaining in prominence but not yet to the detriment of the
priority of the poetic text and its effective rendering.
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Moore, Wes C. Goethe Settings By Johann Friedrich Reichardt and Carl Friedrich Zelter: Text, Music and Performance Possibilities, dissertation, August 2012; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc149641/m1/2/?q=music: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .