Goethe Settings By Johann Friedrich Reichardt and Carl Friedrich Zelter: Text, Music and Performance Possibilities Page: 69
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The second part of Theme I ends the stanza fortissimo and in a heightened emotional state with
the words of the child, "Mein Vater, mein Vater, jetzt fast er mich an!" (My Father, my Father
now he's grabbing me!) (Example 18).
Example 18: Reichardt, Erlkonig, excerpt showing the child's lines
in the second part of Theme II.
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Mein Va - ter, mein Va - ter, jetzt fasst er mich an!
The vocal line and accompaniment are unified throughout by repeated notes on the same pitch
and by the interval of the second. The song is diatonic throughout with no changes of key. The
horrible and tragic events are underscored by the minor mode and the straightforward malevolent
utterances of the Erlkonig.
Due to the consistent diatonic nature of the composition, there are no unexpected chord
progressions in the song. There is a repeated use of a tonic to dominant relationship throughout
the song with the exception of an altered augmented 6th chord which first occurs in Stanza 1 and
re-occurs in the same progression in each subsequent stanza (Example 19).
Example 19: Erlkonig, example of altered IV6 chord.
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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/m1/76/?q=music: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .