ExclusiveMendelssohn: Songs Without Words Op19 No6 V2

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words Op19 No6 V2. This beautiful piece was played by Germanrecords. It is a royalty free music provided through pond5.com.

The title Songs Without Words is inextricably linked with 48 lyrical piano pieces by the composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847), published in eight volumes of six numbers each. The name, which may have been coined by the composer himself, perhaps after his sister Fanny Hensel, stands for character pieces of a song-like nature.

The musical characteristics of Mendelssohn's songs without words include 'narrative tone, linguistic quality, easily comprehensible and lyrical melody, clear form'. In most cases, singable melodies are heard over continuous accompaniment formulae - the ingenious figurations bring many compositions close to virtuoso concert etudes. Choral movements are less common. The form generally follows the three-part song form, although (unlike many other 19th-century character pieces) there is little attempt to create a contrasting effect between the parts. In some pieces the melody runs from beginning to end; other 'songs' begin and end with the accompanying movement layer; a third type has short, cadential preludes and postludes, called 'preludes' and 'appendices'. The poetic idea is central to the thematic work.

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