Just when and how Brahms came to know In stiller Nacht has long beenĪ mystery. Lament issues from no ordinary mortal: the quiet night is the scene ofĬhrist's suffering on the Mount of Olives.(3) Of the provenance of this lovely "folk song" reveals that the Stricken to death"(2) has been viewed as a secular lyric.
Of the Minnesingers, and this "haunting, touching plaint of a heart Responsiveness of nature to human suffering harkens back to the poetry Longer sing joyously, and the wild beasts grieve as well. The moon ceases to shine, the stars stop their gleaming, the birds no 3) it melts the heart with its bitter pain and sorrow,Īnd tears flow from the eyes of the listener. In the poem a lament, carried gently on the wind, is heard early in Metrically stable passages provide resolution within and at the end of each Stanza, is intensified by a rise in dynamic level to forte. Voice, creating a mood of hushed disquiet, which, over the course of the The widely spaced piano part enters an eighth note in advance of the Is the metrical displacement of the accompaniment: for much of the song Voice in the forty-nine Deutsche Volkslieder (WoO 33 no. Setting for solo voice, which was published thirty years later, in 1894,Īnd occupies a place of honor as the last of the arrangements for solo Straightforward homophonic texture is softly colored with neighbor-toneĭissonances to reinforce the expressive undulation of the melody andĭelicately orchestrated by reducing the voices to three treble parts orĪmplifying them with divisi alto or bass.
Which opens the second volume of the Deutsche Volkslieder for mixed aĬappella choir (1864 WoO 34 no. With music of equal simplicity and poignancy. Settings, a reputation justly deserved, for in each a poem is united Johannes Brahms's two interpretations of the enigmatic folk song In stiller Nacht are among his best known and most beloved folk-song APA style: The origin of Brahms's 'In Stiller Nacht.'.The origin of Brahms's 'In Stiller Nacht.'." Retrieved from
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