Franz Schubert’s Lieder have attracted musicologists and theorists alike with their captivating harmonies, daring modulations, and deep text-music relations, among many other qualities. Despite this interest, the sheer quantity of... more
Franz Schubert’s Lieder have attracted musicologists and theorists alike with their captivating harmonies, daring modulations, and deep text-music relations, among many other qualities. Despite this interest, the sheer quantity of Schubert’s Lieder does not easily afford an in-depth theoretical analysis of each piece. Two songs that have not yet received such analysis are “Fahrt zum Hades” (Mayrhofer) and “Gruppe aus dem Tartarus” (Schiller). It is the aim of the present paper to analyze these two songs by synthesizing this scholarly research with in-depth theoretical examinations in the hopes that the resultant analyses will lead to better understanding of the songs as well as laying a foundation for possible future study.
