Schubert's Complete Song Texts
Author: Franz Schubert
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 552
ISBN-13:
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Schubert's Dramatic Lieder
Author: Marjorie Wing Hirsch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1993-08-12
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780521418201
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the way in which Schubert revolutionised the Lied, transforming folk song into art song through the mixture of dramatic and lyrical vocal genres. By introducing dramatic poetry and musical traits within solo song settings, he turned the Lied into a highly expressive musical medium capable of conveying the complexities and nuances of the new Romantic poetry. In so doing, he created an art form which attracted nearly every subsequent composer of the period. Schubert's numerous dramatic songs have baffled critics from his day to our own. Their unusual stylistic characteristics - through composed form, progressive tonal structures, declamatory vocal lines, illustrative accompaniments - fly in the face of traditional conceptions of the Lied. Dr Hirsch's discussion and analysis of selected dramatic Lieder illuminate Schubert's compositional innovation.
Richard Strauss' complete song texts
Author: Richard Strauss
Publisher: Leyerle Publications
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKRetracing a Winter's Journey
Author: Susan Youens
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1991-11-05
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780801499661
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYouens addresses the different aspects of the Winterreise: its cultural milieu, 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.
Schubert's Song Sets
Author: Michael Hall
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-11-22
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 135175534X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title was first published in 2003. From 1821 until his death, Schubert compiled or specially composed for publication 42 song sets, yet during his own lifetime, and until now, their integrity and importance as sets have been virtually ignored. In this book, Michael Hall asserts that these songs sets are not arbitrary collections, as so often assumed, but highly integrated works in their own right. Approaching these songs as sets the book throws light on Schubert's largely undiscussed intellectual preoccupations. They reveal that he was au fait with most of the philosophical concerns of his time, especially those which touched on Romanticism. But although the sets reflect Romanticism in their topics, Hall maintains that they are the epitome of classical balance. In encouraging students and performers to approach these songs as sets, this study aims to alter perceptions of this important repertory.
Returning Cycles
Author: Charles Fisk
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2001-03-12
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 0520225643
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Fisk's portrayal of Schubert is based on evidence from the composer's hand, both verbal (song texts and his written words) and musical (vocal and instrumental). Noting extraordinary aspects of tonality, structure, and gestural content, Fisk argues that through his music Schubert sought to alleviate his apparent sense of exile and his anticipation of early death. Fisk supports this view through close analysis of the cyclic connections within and between the works he explores, finding in them complex musical narratives that attempt to come to terms with mortality, alienation, hope, and desire."--BOOK JACKET.
Schubert's Songs
Author: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Publisher: Amadeus Press
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9780879100056
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe foremost singer-interpreter of Schubert's lieder analyzes the songs within the context of the composer's life and environment
The Fischer-Dieskau Book of Lieder
Author: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780879100049
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe original texts of lieder are accompanied by line-by-line translations
Death in Winterreise
Author: Lauri Suurpää
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2014-01-06
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 0253011086
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLauri Suurpää brings together two rigorous methodologies, Greimassian semiotics and Schenkerian analysis, to provide a unique perspective on the expressive power of Franz Schubert's song cycle. Focusing on the final songs, Suurpää deftly combines textual and tonal analysis to reveal death as a symbolic presence if not actual character in the musical narrative. Suurpää demonstrates the incongruities between semantic content and musical representation as it surfaces throughout the final songs. This close reading of the winter songs, coupled with creative applications of theory and a thorough history of the poetic and musical genesis of this work, brings new insights to the study of text-music relationships and the song cycle.
Schubert's Late Lieder
Author: Susan Youens
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-04-25
Total Pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9780521793148
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study includes selected songs for voice and piano composed by Schubert between 1822 and his death on November 19, 1828. Schubert was diagnosed with syphilis circa late 1822, and many of the songs discussed were written with his knowledge of impending death. It is possible to discover within them a late song style, full of elegiac references to Schubert's other death-haunted works and marked by distinctive variation techniques. Youens also introduces six of the poets whose texts were set to music by Schubert.
