For this prompt I chose to listen to Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau’s version of Erlkönig by Franz Schubert. I’ve heard of the piece but I never analyzed the singing or poetry in depth, so it was fun to sit back and absorb. My experience with this piece was all over the place at first, I was trying to figure out why the piano starts an sustains a very quick accompaniment all the way through, it feels as if it suggesting someone or something running, I also guess that because of the haunting way its sung by Dietrich, like someone running in a horror movie. In the voice, I believe Dietrich is singing as more that one character throughout the piece, I noticed this because one voice is noticeably frightening, another voice is singing “meine father” I don’t know how to spell in german but it might be some kid, then another voice sound like it is this persons “father”, manlier in a sense. It took a couple listens to pick up the different voices, but its noticeable that the voice just changes every stanza between them and the father and the kid talk half in half of each other. After noticing all this I looked into the poetry written by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, and the translations were really cool. The accompaniment is in regard to a running horse, and the characters are this Elf king (Erlkönig), the father, and the child. I also found a recording of Dietrich performing this, and it is unutterably amazing, you can physically see the different characters on his face, I recommend watching.