All three are lyric genres in the technical sense that they were strophic songs with either musical accompaniment or introduction on a stringed instrument.
With strophic song the musical form is very much governed by the poetic form.
Die Heimkehr comprises an overture, seven solo numbers in the form of strophic songs, a few ensembles, and a short finale.
Long strophic songs in a 7-5 syllable meter, often based on archaic tales, sometimes with a Buddhist message.
Long strophic songs in a 7-7- syllable meter.
The first contains 30 strophic sacred songs, simple pieces in the Nuremberg tradition.
The second contains 34 strophic secular songs, set somewhat more freely and in a more ornamented manner.
These were generally strophic, syllabic songs to light texts.
At this point tonos were generally strophic songs (coplas) with a refrain (estribillo).
His earliest church-cantata texts were written in the older form, consisting of verses from the Bible and strophic songs.
