Alex Longnecker: Song Analysis

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There was a vocal recital on October 19th, 2017 at 7:30PM, held at the performance hall in Mountain view college. Alex Longnecker, a tenor vocalist and Imre Patkai, (pianist) played a series of homophonic textured songs, some being sung in German and others in English. The Three selected songs I will be writing about are, The Lincolnshire Poacher, The Plough Boy, and Im Wunderschonen Monat Mai. This performance played a total of 24 Pieces, composed by 4 composers, being Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ernest Chausson, Benjamin Britten, and Robert Schumann.

The first song I will be writing about is The Lincolnshire Poacher. The Lincolnshire Poacher is a fast-paced homophonic textured song, sung in English. The Lincolnshire Poacher suggests a playful feeling, the same feeling a child probably feels on a Christmas morning. This piece has a lot of tension moments like in the romantic period of a rubato tempo song. What I think this piece is about is just a young boy and friends having a good time hunting.
The Plough Boy is also a homophonic piece sung in English, which I think is about a plough boy fantasizing on how great he will be one day. The way this piece is sung makes you be enabled to imagine better what this plough boy was feeling at the time. This piece was made to be sung in a macho type of style to show the audience the plough boy’s thought of masculinity of himself.

Last is Im Wunderschonen Monat Mai by Robert Schumann. This piece sounds like a sad love story of some sort. The piano is what sets the mood of the whole piece, the beginning starts off slow and gloomy sounding, then the vocalist begins to sing and confirms that this song is going to be unhappy. Although the song is gloomy sounding I still like it, the piano has a pleasant melody and it is calming. It sounds like a song that should be played in a movie when a loved one dies and everyone’s mooring at a

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