Robert Schumann : : The Book of Songs / / Jon W. Finson.
Arguably no other nineteenth-century German composer was as literate or as finely attuned to setting verse as Robert Schumann. Jon W. Finson challenges long-standing assumptions about Schumann's Lieder, engaging traditionally held interpretations. He argues against the belief that the "Yea...
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2008] ©2008 |
Year of Publication: | 2008 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- PART I Schumann’s Early Songs and the Lieder of His First Maturity
- Introduction: Schumann’s Criticism and Early Lieder
- 1 Songs of Marriage
- 2 Irony and the Heine Cycles
- 3 Cycles of Wandering
- 4 Romances, Ballads, and the Via Media
- 5 Lyrical Schemes: Collections of Earlier Lieder und Gesänge
- PART II Schumann’s Later Songs
- 6 The Advent of the “New Style” and the Later Cycles
- 7 Poets in Review during the Later Years
- 8 Collections in the New Style
- Epilogue: Reception of the Late Style
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Editions of Music Consulted and Selected Bibliography
- Index of Song Titles and Text Incipits
- General Index