Author: John Reed Publisher: Manchester University Press ISBN: 9781901341003 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 528
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Provides background information on the text and translation for all of Schubert's songs. "A bible for the serious Schubertian."--Back cover.
Author: Christopher H. Gibbs Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521484244 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 364
Book Description
This Companion to Schubert examines the career, music, and reception of one of the most popular yet misunderstood and elusive composers. Sixteen chapters by leading Schubert scholars make up three parts. The first seeks to situate the social, cultural, and musical climate in which Schubert lived and worked, the second surveys the scope of his musical achievement, and the third charts the course of his reception from the perceptions of his contemporaries to the assessments of posterity. Myths and legends about Schubert the man are explored critically and the full range of his musical accomplishment is examined.
Author: Christopher H. Gibbs Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521482295 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 354
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This volume explores the culture in which the composer Franz Schubert (1797SH1828) lived and worked, and provides a basic outline of his life examined in relation to the most persistent myths and legends. Schubert's music is then explored according to genre, a chapter on his songs, another on his symphonies, and so forth. The final section looks at the reception of Schubert's music, primarily during the nineteenth century, and considers the performance tradition of his music.
Author: Marjorie W. Hirsch Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108832849 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 307
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An accessible multi-disciplinary exploration of Franz Schubert's haunting late song cycle Winterreise (1827) that combines context and different analytical approaches.
Author: Susan Youens Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 0801468272 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 348
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"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. Susan Youens looks not only at Schubert's music but at the poetry, drawn from the works of Wilhelm Müller, who once wrote in his diary, "perhaps there is a kindred spirit somewhere who will hear the tunes behind the words and give them back to me!" Youens maintains that Müller, in depicting the wanderings of the alienated lover, produced poetry that was simple but not simple-minded, poetry that embraced simplicity as part of its meaning. In her view, Müller used the ruder folk forms to give his verse greater immediacy, to convey more powerfully the wanderer's complex inner state. Youens addresses many different aspects of Winterreise: the cultural milieu to which it belonged, the genesis of both the poetry and the music, Schubert's transformation of poetic cycle into music, the philosophical dimension of the work, and its musical structure.
Author: Marjorie W. Hirsch Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108967132 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 307
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Organized in five parts, this Companion enhances understanding of Schubert's Winterreise by approaching it from multiple angles. Part I examines the political, cultural, and musical environments in which Winterreise was created. Part II focuses on the poet Wilhelm Müller, his 24-poem cycle Die Winterreise, and changes Schubert made to it in fashioning his musical setting. Part III illuminates Winterreise by exploring its relation to contemporaneous understandings of psychology and science, and early nineteenth-century social and political conditions. Part IV focuses more directly on the song cycle, exploring the listener's identification with the cycle's protagonist, text-music relations in individual songs, Schubert's compositional 'fingerprints', aspects of continuity and discontinuity among the songs, and the cycle's relation to German Romanticism. Part V concentrates on Winterreise in the nearly two centuries since its completion in 1827, including lyrical and dramatic performance traditions, the cycle's influence on later composers, and its numerous artistic reworkings.
Author: John Reed
Author: John REED
Author: Christopher H. Gibbs
Author: Christopher H. Gibbs
Author: Marjorie W. Hirsch
Author: James Parsons
Author: Mark Ringer
Author: Susan Youens
Author: Marjorie W. Hirsch
Author: Susan Youens