Schumann's Eichendorff Liederkreis and the genre of the romantic cycle / David Ferris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ferris, David, 1960- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856 Liederkreis, op. 39.

Eichendorff, Joseph, Freiherr von, 1788-1857--Musical settings--History and criticism.

Song cycles--History and criticism.

Song cycles.

Local Subjects:

Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856 Liederkreis, op. 39.

Eichendorff, Joseph, Freiherr von, 1788-1857--Musical settings--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Using Schumann's Eichendorff Liederkreis as the primary example, this work sheds new light on the structure of 19th-century song cycles and on Schumann's particular response to the problem of musical coherence in large scale works.

Contents:

Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Analyzing Dichterliebe; 3 Schlegel's Fragments and Schumann's Cycles; 4 Poem and Song; 5 Weak Openings; 6 Recompositional Pairings; 7 Schumann's Process of Composing a Cycle; 8 The Song Cycle as a Literary Work; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; W

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-772901-0

1-280-53016-2

0-19-535240-8

1-4294-0380-2

OCLC:

466427689