Robert Schumann : : The Book of Songs / / Jon W. Finson.

• VerfasserIn: Finson, Jon W.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)

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...

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