Der Taucher, 1st setting

Song TitleDer Taucher, 1st setting (Search)
Composer(s):Franz Schubert
Author(s):Friedrich Schiller
Keyword(s) & Features: Abysses; Adorning; Adventures; Alone; Announcing; Anxious; Arms; Asking; Astonishment; Attempting; Audacity; Awful; Baring; Beckoning; Begging; Belts; Benefits; Bestowing; Birth; Black; Blasts; Blushing; Boiling; Bold; Bottomless; Branches; Bravery; Breaking; Breathing; Bright; Bubbling; Capturing; Caverns; Celebrations; Chalices; Challenges; Charybdis; Clamor; Clenching; Cliffs; Cloaks; Close; Closing; Cockroaches; Commending; Competitions; Concealing; Concern; Contrast; Coral; Crawling; Crowds; Crowns; Cruelty; Crying; Cups; Danger; Daring; Dark; Dashing; Daughters; Death; Defending; Depths; Describing; Desires; Desolate; Determination; Devouring; Disfigured; Displaying; Distance; Divers; Diving; Dizziness; Double; Dragging; Dragons; Driving; Ears; Edges; Embracing; Emerging; Emptying; Ending; Endless; Enduring; Eternal; Exhausted; Expensive; Experiences; Eyes; Faith; Falling; Farewell; Farms; Fathers; Fear; Feeling; Feet; Fingers; Fire; Fishes; Fissures; Flashing; Flattering; Floods; Flowing; Foam; Foolish; Forces; Forms; Forward; Funnels; Furious; Games; Gazing; Gems; Gentle; Girls; Glistening; God; Gods; Gold; Gorges; Grasping; Graves; Greeting; Grim; Gulping; Hammerhead sharks; Hanging; Happiness; Hearing; Hearts; Hearty; Heaven; Heights; Hell; Help; Helping; Hesitating; High; Hollow; Horror; Howling; Humans; Humility; Hundreds; Hurling; Hyenas; Imploring; Industrious; Invitations; Jaws; Jubilee; Keels; Keeping; Kingdoms; Kings; Kneeling; Knights; Laboring; Larvae; Leading; Leaning; Left; Lightning; Limbs; Living; Love; Loving; Madness; Magnificent; Masts; Men; Mercy; Miracles; Mixing; Monsters; Mountains; Mournful; Mourning; Mouths; Murmuring; Mystery; Nature; Near-death Experiences; Necks; Newts; Night; Noble; Oceans; Outrunning; Pages; Pale; Pity; Pockets; Power; Power of Nature; Praying; Precious; Precipices; Pressing; Prizes; Protection; Pulling; Purple; Quests; Rage; Rapid; Ravines; Reaching; Realizing; Rearing; Recounting; Regurgitating; Rejoicing; Remaining; Reporting; Rescuing; Retrieving; Returning; Rewards; Rings; Roaring; Rocky; Rolling; Rosy; Rowing; Rushing; Salamanders; Satisfying; Seas; Seizing; Shafts; Shame; Sharks; Ships; Shooting; Showing; Shuddering; Silence; Sinking; Sizzling; Sleeping; Slithering; Slow; Smashing; Snapping; Solitude; Souls; Sparkling; Speaking; Speech; Speed; Spinning; Spirits; Splendid; Spraying; Spurting; Steam; Steep; Stepping; Sticky; Stinging; Stories; Storms; Strength; Struggling; Surf; Surface; Surrounding; Surviving; Swans; Swimmers; Teeming; Teeth; Terrible; Terror; Testing; Threatening; Throwing; Thrusting; Thunder; Timid; Tops; Tossing; Turning; Violence; Waiting; Washing; Water; Waves; Waving; Wearing; Whirling; Whirlpools; White; Wild; Wine; Winning; Wishing; Withstanding; Wives; Women; Wonder; Words; Working; Worry; Yanking; Yawning; Youth
First LineWer wagt es, Rittersmann (Search)
Average Duration25:00 (Search)
Year of composition 1813 - 1814 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttp://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=14449
Musical FormThrough-composed (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsSturm und Drang; Weimar Classicism (Search)
Original LanguageGerman (Search)
Score Source https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/3/38/IMSLP13692-SchubertD077_Der_Taucher_1st_version.pdf
Audio Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWy2HWwj9IE
Catalog DesignationD. 77 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerBass
Range: G2 - F4 (Search)
Original KeyD minor (Search)
NotesThis is the earliest of Schubert's ballad-cantatas. The first and second versions differ slightly throughout. Sometimes Schubert tightens up a recitative, sometimes changes a transitional melody, sometimes doubles the bass octaves. In the second version, he adds dynamics to the accompaniment and an extended piano solo illustrating the diver's second attempt at the goblet. (Search)
Sources CitedJohnson, Graham, and Richard Wigmore. Franz Schubert: The Complete Songs : Schwanengesang-Z. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. Print. (Search)
ContributorAL (Search)
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