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The Cambridge Companion to the Lied(Cambridge Companions to Music Series) » (1st Edition)
Authors: James Parsons
ISBN-13: 9780521804714, ISBN-10: 052180471X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: February 2004
Edition: 1st Edition
Author Biography: James Parsons
JAMES PARSONS is Associate Professor of Music History at Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri. He is the author of numerous essays on German song, including the article on the eighteenth-century Lied for the second edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. His article "'Deine Zauber binden wieder': Beethoven, Schiller, and the Joyous Reconciliation of Opposites," recently was published in Beethoven Forum, (2002) 9/1, 1-53. Other essays have appeared in The Journal of the American Musicological Society and Music Analysis.
Book Synopsis
This is the first introductory chronicle of the Lied and places it in its full context.
Table of Contents
| The Lied in context : a chronology | ||
| Pt. I | Introducing a genre | |
| Introduction : why the Lied? | 3 | |
| 1 | In the beginning was poetry | 12 |
| Pt. II | The birth and early history of a genre in the Age of Enlightenment | |
| 2 | The eighteenth-century Lied | 35 |
| 3 | The Lieder of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven | 63 |
| Pt. III | The nineteenth century : issues of style and development | |
| 4 | The Lieder of Schubert | 85 |
| 5 | The early nineteenth-century song cycle | 101 |
| 6 | Schumann : reconfiguring the Lied | 120 |
| 7 | A multitude of voices : the Lied at mid century | 142 |
| 8 | The Lieder of Liszt | 168 |
| 9 | The Lieder of Brahms | 185 |
| 10 | Tradition and innovation : the Lieder of Hugo Wolf | 204 |
| 11 | Beyond song : instrumental transformations and adaptations of the Lied from Schubert to Mahler | 223 |
| Pt. IV | Into the twentieth century | |
| 12 | The Lieder of Mahler and Richard Strauss | 245 |
| 13 | The Lied in the modern age : to mid century | 273 |
| Pt. V | Reception and performance | |
| 14 | The circulation of the Lied : the double life of an artwork and a commodity | 301 |
| 15 | The Lied in performance | 315 |
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