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Song Cycle

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Song cycles · Through-composed songs

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A song cycle is a series of songs conceived and composed to form a large unified whole. Representative song cycles include the following. Beethoven's An die ferne Geliebte. Schubert's “Die schöne Müllerin” and “Winterreise” Schumann's “Frauenliebe und -leben” and “Dichterliebe” Brahms’s “Songs from Magelone” Fauré’s “La bonne chanson” Debussy’s “Songs of Bilitis” The first song cycle in vocal-music history was Beethoven's An die ferne Geliebte (Op. 98). Based on Alois Jeitteles's poems, its 1st and 6th songs sing yearning for love, while the middle 2nd–5th share scenes viewed from atop a hill. Songs giving each stanza a different new melody, with music expressing the development of the poem’s content alongside it, are called “through-composed songs.” Schubert’s “Erlkönig” is particularly famous.

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