Structure
The seven songs are:
- Nacht (Night) - text by Carl Hauptmann
- Schilflied (Song amid the reeds) - Nikolaus Lenau
- Die Nachtigall (The nightingale) - Theodor Storm
- Traumgekrönt (Crowned in dream) - Rainer Maria Rilke
- Im Zimmer (Indoors) - Johanes Schlaf
- Liebesode (Ode to Love) - Otto Erich Hartleben
- Sommertage (Summer days) - Paul Hohenberg
Read more about this topic: Seven Early Songs (Berg)
Famous quotes containing the word structure:
“Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who rears and protects it, but even its servants are uplifted by the thought that they are members of a whole, which rises high above the life and strength of single generations.”
—Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt (17671835)
“When a house is tottering to its fall,
The strain lies heaviest on the weakest part,
One tiny crack throughout the structure spreads,
And its own weight soon brings it toppling down.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
“The structure was designed by an old sea captain who believed that the world would end in a flood. He built a home in the traditional shape of the Ark, inverted, with the roof forming the hull of the proposed vessel. The builder expected that the deluge would cause the house to topple and then reverse itself, floating away on its roof until it should land on some new Ararat.”
—For the State of New Jersey, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)