The alternation of these opposing units builds a current of subtle tension into the poem, a feeling of gentle movement that corresponds to Schumann's quietly pulsating sixteenth notes. Odd numbered lines finish with an accentuation pattern of, while even lines stop with the pattern. Against the consistent iambic 3 initiations of all the lines, a counterposing accentuation scheme is applied to their endings. Each pair of even numbered lines ends with perfect rhyme, while odd numbered pairs terminate slightly imperfectly. The poem scans in iambic trimeter, its twelve lines dividing into three quatrains each composed of a single sentence. Such unified expression originates in a deeply sensitive and resonant reading of the text, and any investigation into the song must begin with an analysis of the inner motivations of the poem itself, its rhythms, themes, sound structures and dramatic shape. In this song, the composer matches the art of the poet in richness, nuance and form, creating a context in which verbal and musical elements embrace and reinforce one another. Only with a stu tions of accompanists and coaches is great."Mondnacht" is described by Oskar Seidlin as Eichendorff's "most beautiful poem, one of the few perfect lyrical marvels in the German language." 1 Schumann's universally beloved setting, "pure magic" in Gerald Moore's words, 2 is equally prized as one of the true gems of the German art song literature (Fig. Take Stravinsky and Picasso, one's work but, on the other hand, the task is hard be for instance: they have gone back and forth through as cause one's responsibility to present and future genera many periods of style as they wished. Our leading creative artists master technique hand, one looks to the past: there is no generally ap to the point of being able to shift from one style to proved model to be followed and to be compared with another without difficulty. This that it could not help but create perfect technician freedom makes the task somewhat easier, if, on the one artists. exclusively with the problems timely then) one must Our time has perfected technique to such a degree make one's own rules and set one's own standards. The creative musical genius of our space age eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries - and dealt has yet to be discovered, if he has been born. But, alas, there has not been such last textbooks about accompanying were written during a genius in the realm of music during the twentieth the age of thorough bass or shortly thereafter - the century. IN WRITING a book for which there is no precedent (the tistic achievements.
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