Der Doppelganger
A mind map summarising the key features of Schubert's Der Doppelganger. Helpful for the extended answers on the edexcel papers. Feel free to ask questions/suggest improvements :)
- Created by: Nora
- Created on: 04-02-13 18:30
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- Der Doppelganer
- Melody
- Verse 2
- range expands upwards
- Verse 1
- Begins on a monotone F#
- Narrow range within the minor 7th
- A few leaps of a 4th/5th some stepwise movement
- Verse 3
- Ranges more widely than verse 1
- Begins on a monotone F#
- Climactic top F#
- Melodic interest almost entirely in the voice part
- Word setting
- Five note melisma
- Syllabic
- Occasionally two notes per syllable
- Verse 2
- Structure
- Piano has an interlude, postlude and two brief interludes
- Through-composed
- Song unified by: repeats of opening four chord progression; varied repeats of some music
- Poem has three stanzas
- Tonality
- No major-key passgaes
- Four bars of D# minor; a distant 'tertiary' relationship
- Almost everything in B minor
- Performing Forces
- Impassioned use of high notes
- Tessitura is frequently low
- Piano part mostly low with both hands in bass clef
- Wide vocal range (an octave and a minor 6th)
- (Unspecified) Male voice and piano
- Harmony
- Momentary false relation
- Long dominant pedal
- Prominent german augmented 6th
- Slow harmonic rhythm
- Closing tonic pedal
- Functional harmony
- Rhythm and Metre
- Declamatory treatment
- Simple triple time 3/4
- Voice part matches rhythm of text (strong syllables have longer notes on accented parts of bar)
- Texture
- Voice has main melodic interest
- Homophonic
- Piano part mostly homorhythmic or chordal
- Often only two 'real' parts
- Mostly chords of 5 notes (much parallel doubling)
- Some chords with six or seven notes
- Melody
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