Robert Schumann’s Aus meinen Tränen sprießen from Dichterliebe: Various Analytical Approaches

Fabio De Sanctis De Benedictis

This analysis was proposed to all participants at the 1918 HarMA conference in Brussels. After some preliminary information, the piece is analyzed using different methods: segmentation and morphological analysis, thematic analysis, harmonic (functional theory), Schenkerian, semiological, rhetorical and statistical analysis. From the comparison of the results of the different methodologies a small ternary form emerges, but with some references also to a possible binary structure, a sort of synthesis between two and three.

Keywords: comparative music analysis; binary form, ternary form; Robert Schumann;

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Source(s), object(s) and method(s) of analysis
Source(s) of analysisScore
Year of creation1840
Composer's nameRobert Schumann
Target group / Study level
Level of Music Analysis knowledgeAdvanced

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