Mahler Lieder Und Gesange Aus Dem Jugendzeit Zu Strassburg Auf Der Schanz (At Strasbourg On The Battlement)
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The tenth song in this collection, \\u201cZu Strassburg auf der Schanz\\u201d (At Strasbourg on the battlement), starts with a very colorful piano entrance marked \\u201cas a folk tune\\u201d and \\u201cimitating the shawm.\\u201d\\xa0
As Donald Mitchell points out, this is of a type very characteristic of Mahler in his vocal as well as symphonic output: the slow farewell song or funeral march\\u2026We have a relatively simple example of the kind, remarkable chiefly for the piano\\u2019s imitation of the \\u201cSchalmei,\\u201d the chalumeau or herdsman\\u2019s pipe, which lures the homesick soldier into swimming the Rhine by night. There is also the imitation, in the left hand, of the military drums that accompany his capture, his conviction as a deserter, and the march to his execution. Mahler explicitly instructs the right hand to play \\u201clike a chalumeau,\\u201d and notes for the left: \\u201cIn all those low trills the sound of muted drums is to be imitated by means of the pedal,\\u201d a clear indication that he was moving towards a song form with orchestra.
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A listening guide of Lieder Und Ges\\xe4nge Aus Dem Jugendzeit \\u2013 Zu Strassburg Auf Der Schanz with Lew Smoley.
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