This song opens with the accompaniment playing the descending melody (read slowly) “E-flat, D, C, G, E-flat, short D, C.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this song titled for the words the singer writes on the gate of his lover’s home as he passes by. Like other songs in its song cycle, such as “The Signpost” and “The Hurdy-Gurdy Man,” this song’s lyrics come from a Wilhelm Müller poem.
ANSWER: “Gute Nacht” [or “Good Night”]
[10m] “Gute Nacht” opens this cycle of 24 lieder by Schubert, the second song cycle he wrote based on Müller poems.
ANSWER: Winterreise (“VIN-ter-RYE-zuh”) [or Winter Journey]
[10e] Schubert also wrote a piece in this genre that only includes two complete movements and is thus nicknamed “Unfinished.”
ANSWER: symphony [accept Unfinished Symphony]
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