Lied And Melrody By Gary Tomlinson

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Lied and Melodies is similar because they both are songs just in different languages. They are different because Lied means German for a song and Melodies means French for a song. According to the editors of encyclopedia Britannica, “The earliest use for the word melodies for this type of song was in the 1820s.” Melodies came first since it was in the earliest century. According to Joseph Kerman and Gary Tomlinson, “lied evolved in the late eighteenth century and flourished in the nineteenth century (238). The two composers who develop the type of songs, one in German and one in French is Franz Schubert and Hector Berlioz. According to Joseph Kerman and Gary Tomlinson, “later in Franz Schubert melodies became richer, but no less beautiful, …show more content…

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