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Optional Work (b): Schubert, Erlkoenig (The Erl King)
Music: Western Music · Chapter 9 · Section B: Prescribed Works
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- Context: Schubert and the Lied; Goethe's ballad
- Characterisation of narrator, father, son and Erl King by one singer
- The piano part: galloping triplets, bass motif and dramatic tension; through-composed form