Der Doppelganger (Schubert) 1828
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- Created on: 03-04-14 14:51
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- Der Doppelganger (Schubert) 1828 Vienna, Austria
- Structure
- The three verses starting at Bars 5; 25; 43 are through composed
- Four bar ostinato figure heard in the piano at the start reoccurs five times providing a sense of unity
- Tonality
- B minor for first 40 bars
- Rises chromatically to arrive at the remote key of D# minor at bar 47
- Begins a return to B minor at bar 51
- Harmony
- Incomplete triads in the opening chords, making use of bare fifths
- Use of chromaticism particularly in the progrssion from Bars 41-46
- Augmented 6th chords at climaxes e.g. bar 51
- Neapolitan 6th chord bar 59
- F# inner dominant pedal for the first 40 bars
- Tonic/dominant alternation bars 47-50
- Plagal cadence & Tierce de Picardie at the end
- Texture
- Melody with slow moving chordal accompaniment
- Occasionally two part texture - Bars 10 & 39 beat 3
- Vocal writing
- Word setting is syllabic
- Melisma used at bar 54-55
- Wide use of dynamics to convey the emotion of the text
- Speech and musical accents coincide
- Other
- Der Doppelganger is a lied (german song) of which Schubert wrote well over 600
- This work was written in 1828 when Schubert was 31 and he knew he only had a short time to live
- It is set to a poem by Heine who was one of the most important poets of the time
- Rhythm
- Slow triple time
- Steady dotted minim chords in piano throughout
- Dotted rhythms in vocal part
- Occasional use of demisemiquavers in piano - bar 13 & 24
- Melody
- Overall range of a 13th (B-G)
- Declamatory opening
- Short phrases
- Appogiaturas
- Some triadic patterns
- Occasional large leaps
- Moves to higher register for climax
- Melody line revolves around F# initially and features a descending tonic triad
- Use of a turn - bar 21
- Climactic moments at bars 31 & 41, shown by the dynamics
- Structure
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