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Robert Schumann : The Book of Songs /

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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Autor principal: Finson, Jon W. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2008]
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  • 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