Analysing the lieds composed from the ballads 'Flohlied' and 'Der König in Thule' in Goethe's Faust in terms of poetry - music relationship

Although the song tradition, in which an oral work is enriched with music, dates back to ancient times, it has experienced its most productive period with the 'Romantic lied'. This study includes a comparative analysis of lieds composed on two literary ballads in Goethe's Faust in the context of lied forms. In this context, the composition examples of the two ballads in Faust, which are in the structure of 'strophic', 'binary – trenary lied form' and 'through composed' lied form, are analysed in the context of the relationship between poetry and music. The research started with an introduction to Goethe's life and Faust. Afterwards, the relationship between poetry and music in the Romantic period was analysed on the axis of 'The Conflict of the Romantics', and then the development of the literary ballad in this period was discussed. Then the development of the lied in the Romantic period was analysed; the strophic and through composed forms were explained. The contribution of making these formal and dramatic distinctions between literature and music to the performance of lied interpreters has been investigated.