Robert Schumann : the book of songs /

Main Author: Finson, Jon W.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.
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Table of 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.