Regenlied - No. 3 from Eight Lieder and Songs Op. 59

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After the arrival of the voice this mood accounts for a further 8 bars of the song. There is now a passage of major-key radiance bars 13—20 , an illustration of the rising evening star.

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Now, first in the right hand, and then in the left, watery semiquavers in the accompaniment represent the spreading of a shroud of mist over the lake bars 21—32 ; the music seems to feel its way through the darkness as if uncertain of its own direction. The image of willows rustling in the waters provides a slightly more capricious vocal line supported by piano syncopations before a change of key-signature at bar Goethe tells us that a healing coolness steals into the heart through the eyes—into the depths of the heart certainly, but also perhaps into the depths of oblivion.

As the boat lifts and rocks us, Light mist rises and falls, The sweet peace of heaven Lies over the radiant world. Pounding heart, open your eyes, Look about you and be appeased; You can absorb happiness and peace From this double image of heaven. See how the waters reflect Tower and hill, woodland and town, Likewise in your songs reflect The fairest that earth has to offer. The music suggests that it is the poet-narrator who is energized by the fresh air and the scenery, and the song seems to breathe deep and exultantly—and this despite the fact that the vocal line, in typical Brahms fashion, moves up and down in arpeggios, mostly in crotchets and with never a pause for breath.

The music for the first two verses of the poem is identical, and there is a stormy middle strophe that is ideally placed in musical terms for a short outburst of passionate singing followed by an extraordinarily musical rendition of the process of softening and reconciliation described in the poem.

In some respects this is all typical of the composer, but it is not quite typical in another—this is one of those songs after which listeners and performers are left feeling under a cloudless sky and glad to be alive. When oppressive summer heat Contended idly with cool freshness, And shiny leaves dripped with dew And crops turned a darker blue,. How blissful then it was to stand With naked feet in the flow! Or to brush against the grass Or grasp the foam in both hands,.

Or to catch the cold drops On my glowing cheeks, And to bare my boyish breast To fresh-awakened scents! Cascade, rain, cascade down, Wake in me those old songs That we sang in the doorway When outside the drops resounded!



The poem is divided into eight quatrains as printed above. The pianist must frequently cross hands, left over right, to play these notes in different registers of the instrument.

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The rain itself is represented by the rustling quavers that gently, self-effacingly and more or less ceaselessly, pulsate in the middle region of the keyboard. The comparison that comes to mind is French: The music gambols with all the energy and zest of boyhood. One is tempted to say that this is music suitable for an enthusiastic Ganymede in love with nature, although here he is a North German working-class boy rather than Trojan prince. Undoubtedly the hardest part of the song to bring off, this music abandons ceaseless movement in favour of a kind of transfixed and ecstatic contemplation.

Here Groth attempts to describe those moments that link memories of childhood, as reinterpreted by the nostalgic adult, with the secret meaning of being alive. The last page of the song is a beautiful coda—mention of innocent childlike awe softens the music into the radiance of F sharp major.

Opus 59 Listening Guide - Eight Songs (Lieder und Gesänge)

There is no change of tempo in this gradual winding-down those rain-like quavers continue to pulsate in the accompaniment but the longer note values of the vocal line herald a conclusion both dreamlike and elegiac. When the sun shines again, The grass gleams twice as green: Twice as ardently on my cheeks My scalding tears will glow. In this way friends, and prospective friends, found themselves regularly tested.

He could become massively offended if people and women especially , misread the signs—and this through no fault of their own, apart from being insufficiently practised at reading his mind.

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This tiny motif when repeated in various ways throughout the song, including two bars where the quavers ascend, encompasses a wistful reproach or a heartbroken plea, a smiling taunt and even a suggestive invitation. It is only human for a man to flirt and beseech, but he does not really mean to topple the beloved from her pedestal.

The affectionate peacefulness of the coda may assuage the pain of sexual frustration with a sigh of admiration, even relief, that she has passed the test. The listener is directed to track 23 for a folksong version of this nocturnal theme: Wie wenn ein Strahl durch schwere Wolken bricht, So winkest du ihm zu: Duration 20 minutes Composer Time Period Comp. Retrieved from " http: Lieder ; Songs ; For voice, piano ; For voices with keyboard ; Scores featuring the voice ; Scores featuring the piano ; German language. Contents 1 Performances 1. Editor Eusebius Mandyczewski I provide the original scanned version and the filtered, because the filter does some changes smoothening, sharpening borders and some portions of the scan get lost sometimes when they are too small e.

8 Lieder and Songs, Op.59 (Brahms, Johannes)

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