Anyway, we're gonna concentrate here on song number four of this cycle Du Ring
an meinem Finger, Oh, You Ring on My Finger.
The woman has just been married and she stares down rapturously at her new ring.
As you can see, there are five strophes to this lead, and
we would expect the composer to set it in strophic form, changing the text.
But continually repeating the music for each new strophe.
But as you can see, our mystery composer here doesn't do that.
He or she repeats the music in a way that creates another well known musical form,
and that is, just looking at the letters there,
that is, well, A B A C A, Rondo form of course.
Rondo form, with a piano coda.
And that's a bit of a surprise.
That's a bit of a surprise.
And what do you think of this text?
Let's focus now on our text and in red you see strophe four
clearly it was written in the days before sexual equality.
Quote, I will serve him, I will live for him,
I will belong to him entirely, and so on.
Wow, I'd never get away with that in my house.
And notice that this strophe four in red
really is the musical high point of the song.
So let me play a little bit at the keyboard here.
Play a little bit of the A material.
And then the B and so on.
Here's the A section.
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