the german term for the art song is
Hereâs art songâs brief description: a poem set to music, usually for trained voice and piano with a duration of about three minutes. Other English words are solo song, art-song, artsong, classical song, piano song etc. In German the word for such classical song is Lied (singular) and Lieder (plural).It is the German practice to capitalize their nouns.es, there are art songs with orchestra etc., but that will do for a beginning. You already know at least one art song, Brahmsâ Lullaby. The first verse is taken from a collection of German folk poems called Des Knaben Wunderhorn; the second stanza was written by Georg Scherer (1824 â 1909) in 1849. .