The Cambridge Companion to Schubert

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.

The Cambridge Companion to Schubert's Winterreise'

Author: Marjorie W. Hirsch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108832849
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 307

Book Description
An accessible multi-disciplinary exploration of Franz Schubert's haunting late song cycle Winterreise (1827) that combines context and different analytical approaches.

The Cambridge Companion to the Lied

Author: James Parsons
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521804714
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 446

Book Description
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.

The Cambridge Companion to Schubert

Author: Christopher Howard Gibbs
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781139815475
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Schubert's Vienna

Author: Raymond Erickson
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300070804
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 332

Book Description
The Vienna in which Franz Schubert lived for the thirty-one years of his life was not just a city of music, dance, and coffeehouses - a centre of important achievements in the arts. It was also the capital of an empire that was constantly at war in the composer's youth and that became a police state during his maturity.

The Life of Schubert

Author: Christopher H. Gibbs
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521595124
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 230

Book Description
This searching biography takes a fresh look at this elusive and misunderstood genius.

The Cambridge Companion to Schumann

Author: Beate Perrey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139826379
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
This Companion is an accessible introduction to Schumann: his time, his temperament, his style and his œuvre. An international team of scholars explores the cultural context, musical and poetic fabric, sources of inspiration and interpretative reach of key works from the Schumann repertoire ranging from his famous lieder and piano pieces to chamber, orchestral and dramatic works. Additional chapters address Schumann's presence in nineteenth- and twentieth-century composition and the fascinating reception history of his late works. Tables, illustrations, a detailed chronology and advice on further reading make it an ideally informative handbook for both the Schumann connoisseur and the music lover. An excellent textbook for the university student of courses on key composers of nineteenth-century Western Classical music, it is an invaluable guide for all who are interested in the thought, aesthetics and affective power of one of the most intriguing figures of a culturally rich and formative period.

The Cambridge Companion to Schubert's ‘Winterreise'

Author: Marjorie W. Hirsch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108967132
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 307

Book Description
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.

The Cambridge Companion to the Piano

Author: David Rowland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521479868
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 268

Book Description
A Companion to the piano, one of the world's most popular instruments.

The Cambridge Companion to Music and Romanticism

Author: Benedict Taylor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108475434
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 403

Book Description
A stimulating new approach to understanding the relationship between music and culture in the long nineteenth century.