Robert Schumann
Subtitle: the book of songs
By: Jon W. Finson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780674026292
Subjects: Schumann, Robert, -- 1810-1856; Songs -- Analysis, appreciation; Songs -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-301) and indexes
Table of contents: title: 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; title: 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; title: Epilogue : reception of the late style