Song

Song
Author: Carol Kimball
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 603
Release: 2006-12-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1617749974

Carol Kimball's comprehensive survey of art song literature has been the principal one-volume American source on the topic. Now back in print after an absence of several years this newly revised edition includes biographies and discussions of the work of

The Complete Songs of Hugo Wolf

The Complete Songs of Hugo Wolf
Author: Richard Stokes
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 820
Release: 2021-10-08
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0571360718

The Complete Songs of Hugo Wolf gathers together for the first time every poem Wolf set to music. Alongside the original German texts are translations by leading Lieder expert Richard Stokes, who also provides illuminating commentary. The 36 poets set by Wolf are each given their own chapter: a brief essay on the poet is followed by a note on Wolf's connection with the writer, extracts from letters that throw light on the Songs and convey his mood at the time of composition, and the texts and translations. Short biographies of all Wolf's correspondents flesh out the extraordinary life of this genius. This will be an indispensable volume for all lovers of Lieder.

Schumann's Eichendorff Liederkreis and the Genre of the Romantic Cycle

Schumann's Eichendorff Liederkreis and the Genre of the Romantic Cycle
Author: David Ferris
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2000-11-30
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0195352408

This new study draws on analysis, literary criticism, and source studies to propose a new conception of the nineteenth-century romantic cycle. Rather than a unified whole, the cycle is seen as a fragmentary and open-ended form, which enables Schumann to express the romantic themes of transcendence and ineffability in musical terms.

Of Poetry and Song

Of Poetry and Song
Author: Ann Clark Fehn
Publisher: University Rochester Press
Total Pages: 472
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN: 1580460550

Interdisciplinary studies of some of the greatest examples of German art song by major scholars in musicology and German literature.

45 songs on poems of Goethe and Eichendorff

45 songs on poems of Goethe and Eichendorff
Author: Hugo Wolf
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 209
Release: 1995-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0486288579

German composer's deeply affecting works include pieces evoking a romantic moonlit world, exquisite short love lyrics, and works that explore the darker side of human experience.

Poetry Into Song

Poetry Into Song
Author: Deborah Stein
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2010-06-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0199754306

When Franz Schubert put Goethe's poem "Gretchen am Spinnrade" to music in 1814, he created a musical form that has captivated audiences ever since. In Poetry into Song, Deborah Stein and Robert Spillman challenge readers to seek a richer, more imaginative understanding of Lied - the nineteenth-century German art song. Written for students of voice, piano, and theory and for all singers and accompanists, Poetry into Song establishes a framework for the analysis of song based on a process of performing, listening, analyzing, and performing again. This unique approach emphasizes the reciprocal interaction between performance and analysis. Focusing on the masterworks, Poetry into Song features numerous poetic texts, as well as a core repertory of songs. Examples throughout the text demonstrate points, and end of chapter questions reinforce concepts and encourage directed analysis. While numerous books have been written on Lieder and German Romantic poetry, Poetry into Song is the first to combine performance, musical analysis, textual analysis, and the interrelation between poetry and music in a truly systematic, thorough way.

Songs in Motion

Songs in Motion
Author: Yonatan Malin
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2010
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0195340051

This is an exploratopn of rhythm and meter in the 19th-century German Lied, including songs for voice and piano by Fanny Hensel née Mendelssohn, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, and Hugo Wolf. The Lied, as a genre, is characterised especially by the fusion of poetry and music.

The Songs of Fanny Hensel

The Songs of Fanny Hensel
Author: Stephen Rodgers
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2021-01-08
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0190919566

Introduction / Stephen Rodgers -- Nature and Travel. The Wilderness at Home : Woods-Romanticism in Fanny Hensel's Eichendorff Songs / Amanda Lalonde ; Waldszenen and Abendbilder : Fanny Hensel, Nikolaus Lenau, and the Nature of Melancholy / Scott Burnham ; Songs of Travel : Fanny Hensel's Wanderings / Susan Wollenberg -- Settings of English Verse. Women's Private Cosmopolitanism in Literary Translation and Song : Fanny Hensel's Drei Lieder nach Heinrich Heine von Mary Alexander / Jennifer Ronyak ; In this elusive language: A Byron Song by Fanny Hensel / Susan Youens -- Tonal Ingenuity. You too may change : Tonal Pairing of the Tonic and Subdominant in Two Songs by Fanny Hensel / Tyler Osborne ; Plagal Cadences in Fanny Hensel's Songs / Stephen Rodgers -- Responses to Poetic Form. Working with Words : Revisions of Declamation in Fanny Hensel's Song Autographs / Harald Krebs ; Modulating Couplets in Fanny Hensel's Songs / Yonatan Malin -- Beyond Song/Beyond Hensel. Reading Poetry Through Music: Fanny Hensel and Others / Jürgen Thym ; Fanny Hensel's Lieder (ohne Worte) and the Boundaries of Song : The Curious Case of the Lied in Db major, Op. 8, No. 3 / R. Larry Todd.

The Cambridge Companion to the Lied

The Cambridge Companion to the Lied
Author: James Parsons
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 446
Release: 2004-07
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780521804714

Beginning several generations before Schubert, the Lied first appears as domestic entertainment. In the century that follows it becomes one of the primary modes of music-making. By the time German song comes to its presumed conclusion with Richard Strauss's 1948 Vier letzte Lieder, this rich repertoire has moved beyond the home and keyboard accompaniment to the symphony hall. This is a 2004 introductory chronicle of this fascinating genre. In essays by eminent scholars, this Companion places the Lied in its full context - at once musical, literary, and cultural - with chapters devoted to focal composers as well as important issues, such as the way in which the Lied influenced other musical genres, its use as a musical commodity, and issues of performance. The volume is framed by a detailed chronology of German music and poetry from the late 1730s to the present and also contains a comprehensive bibliography.