Retracing a Winter's Journey : : Franz Schubert's "Winterreise" / / Susan Youens.

I like these songs better than all the rest, and someday you will too, Franz Schubert told the friends who were the first to hear his song cycle, Winterreise. These lieder have always found admiring audiences, but the poetry he chose to set them to has been widely regarded as weak and trivial. In Re...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (348 p.) :; 4 halftones, 2 line drawings, 61 musical examples
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Part I. The Poet and The Composer
  • 1. Genesis and Sources
  • 2. The Texts of Winterreise
  • 3. The Music of Winterreise
  • Part II. The Songs
  • 1. Gute Nacht
  • 2. Die Wetterfahne
  • 3. Gefror'ne Tranen
  • 4. Erstarrung
  • 5. Der Lindenbaum
  • 6. Wasserflut
  • 7. Auf dem Fluße
  • 8. Rückblick
  • 9. [Das] Irrlicht
  • 10. Rast
  • 11. Frühlingstraum
  • 12. Einsamkeit
  • 13. Die Post
  • 14. Der greise Kopf
  • 15. Die Krähe
  • 16. Letzte Hoffnung
  • 17. Im Dorfe
  • 18. Der stürmische Morgen
  • 19. Täuschung
  • 20. Der Wegweiser
  • 21. Das Wirtshaus
  • 22. Mut
  • 23. Die Nebensonnen
  • 24. Der Leiermann
  • Postlude
  • Appendix. Ludwig Uhland's Wander-Lieder
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index