Robert Schumann : the book of songs / Jon W. Finson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Finson, Jon W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856. Songs.

Schumann, Robert.

Songs--Analysis, appreciation.

Songs.

Songs--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

xvi, 318 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.

Contents:

Schumann's early songs and the Lieder of his first maturity. Introduction : Schumann's criticism and early Lieder ; Songs of marriage ; Irony and the Heine cycles ; Cycles of wandering ; Romances, ballads, and the via media ; Lyrical schemes : collections of earlier Lieder und Gesänge

Schumann's later songs. The advent of the "new style" and the later cycles ; Poets in review during the later years ; Collections in the new style

Epilogue : reception of the late style.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-301) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780674026292

0674026292

OCLC:

85485181