Compare and contrast the following three musical works. What are their common threads? How does each set the meaning of the text? How does their style of composition make them fall into the style periods in which they were written? What demands are asked of the soloists and accompanists? Take a close look at each one:

1. Franz Schubert’s The Erlking (1815)

2. Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire (1912)

3. Kaija Saariaho’s From the Grammar of Dreams (1988)