Author: Susan Youens
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521778626
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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A re-examination of the life and work of four poets and Schubert's settings of their verse.
Author: Lisa Feurzeig
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317059131
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 245
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This study of Franz Schubert's settings of poetry by Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis introduces the fascinating world of early German Romanticism in the 1790s, when an energetic group of bold young thinkers radically changed the landscape of European thought. Schubert's encounters with early Romantic poetry some twenty years later reanimated some of the movement's central ideas. Schubert set eleven texts from Schlegel's Abendröte poetic cycle and six poems drawn from Novalis' religious and erotic poetry. Through detailed analyses of how various musical structures in these songs mirror and sometimes even explicate the central ideas of the poems, this book argues that Schubert was an abstract thinker who used his medium of music to diagram the complex ideas of a highly intellectual movement. A comparison is made to the hermeneutic theory of that time, primarily that of Schleiermacher, who was himself linked to the early Romantics. Through exploration of ideas such as Schlegel's representation of the necessary interdependence of part and whole and Novalis' strong association of religious and erotic experience, along with their musical representations by Schubert, this book opens an intriguing world of thought for modern readers. At the same time, Feurzeig explores some of Schubert's little-known songs, which range from quirky to charming to exquisite.
Author: Susan Youens
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521028752
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 457
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A study of songs composed by Schubert in the final six years of his life.
Author: Susan Youens
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521563642
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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The collaboration of Schubert and the poet Wilhelm Müller produced some of the best loved of nineteenth-century lieder - in particular the song cycle Die schöne Müllerin. Professor Youens shows us how this archetypal tale of love and rejection, which has its origins in medieval romance, Minnesong and popular German legend, is reflected in the poet's own experience, the realms of art and life intertwining. Professor Youens considers other poets' explorations of the theme of a miller maid and her suitors, and looks at other musical settings of Müller's mill poems. But above all she examines Müller's permutation of the literary legends as an exploration of erotic obsession, delusion, frenzy, disillusionment and death and the way in which Schubert crucially altered Müller's vision when the poetic cycle became a musical text.
Author: The Open University
Publisher: The Open University
ISBN: 1473005566
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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This 16-hour free course explored Schubert's 'Lieder', a selection of his settings of Goethe's poems and his place in the history of German song.
Author: Susan Youens
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521823749
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 317
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A study into the poet Heinrich Heine's impact on nineteenth-century song.
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: Christopher H. Gibbs
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521484244
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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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: Lorraine Byrne
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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This reference book comprises individual studies of all of Schubert's solo, dramatic and multi-voice settings of Goethe's poems. Lorraine Byrne examines the myths that have evolved around these artists, and explores Schubert's reading and interpretation of Goethe's texts.
Author: Dr Lisa Feurzeig
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 140944788X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 217
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Book Description
This study of Franz Schubert's settings of poetry by Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis introduces the fascinating world of early German Romanticism in the 1790s. Schubert's encounters with early Romantic poetry some twenty years later reanimated some of the movement's central ideas. Through exploration of Frühromantik ideas, along with their musical representations by Schubert, this book opens an intriguing world of thought. At the same time, Feurzeigh explores some of Schubert's little-known songs, which range from quirky to charming to exquisite.
