Schubert in the European Imagination
Schubert in the European Imagination

Author: Scott Messing

Publisher: University Rochester Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9781580462136

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The concept of Schubert as a feminine type began in 1838. This work examines the historical reception of Franz Schubert as conveyed through the gendered imagery and language of 19th and early 20th century European culture. The figures discussed include Musset, Sand, Nerval, Maupassant, George Eliot, and others.

Schubert's Instrumental Music and Poetics of Interpretation
Schubert's Instrumental Music and Poetics of Interpretation

Author: René Rusch

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 0253067405

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Music scholarship's views of Franz Schubert's instrumental works continue to evolve. How might aesthetic values, historiographies, revisions to the composer's biography, and disciplinary commitments affect how we interpret his music? Schubert's Instrumental Music and Poetics of Interpretation explores the aesthetic positions and operations that underlie critical assessments of Schubert's instrumental works. In six chapters, each devoted to one or two of Schubert's pieces, René Rusch examines the conditions that have prompted scholarship to reevaluate the composer's music and legacy, considers how different conclusions about his music may be reflective of certain aesthetic values, investigates the role of narrative in both music analysis and constructions of history, and explores alternative forms of coherence through updated analyses of the composer's instrumental works. Rusch's observations and comparative analyses address four significant areas of scholarly focus in Schubert studies, including his approach to chromaticism, his unique musical forms, the relationship between his music and biography, and the influence of Beethoven. Drawing from a range of philosophical, hermeneutic, historical, biographical, theoretical, and analytical sources, Schubert's Instrumental Music and Poetics of Interpretation offers readers a unique and innovative foray into the poetics of contemporary analyses of Schubert's instrumental music and develops new ways to engage with his repertoire.

Schubert
Schubert

Author: Lorraine Byrne Bodley

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2023-01-01

Total Pages: 738

ISBN-13: 0300204086

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An insightful biography of the great composer, revealing Schubert's complex and fascinating private life alongside his musical genius Brilliant, short-lived, incredibly prolific--Schubert is one of the most intriguing figures in music history. While his music attracts a wide audience, much of his private life remains shrouded in mystery, and significant portions of his work have been overlooked. In this major new biography, Lorraine Byrne Bodley takes a detailed look into Schubert's life, from his early years at the Stadtkonvikt to the harrowing battle with syphilis that led to his death at the age of thirty-one. Drawing on extensive archival research in Vienna and the Czech Republic, and reconsidering the meaning of some of his best-known works, Bodley provides a fuller account than ever before of Schubert's extraordinary achievement and incredible courage. This is a compelling new portrait of one of the most beloved composers of the nineteenth century.

Pentatonicism from the Eighteenth Century to Debussy
Pentatonicism from the Eighteenth Century to Debussy

Author: Jeremy Day-O'Connell

Publisher: University Rochester Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13: 9781580462488

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A generously illustrated examination of pentatonic ("black-key scale") techniques in the context of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Western art-music. Pentatonicism from the Eighteenth Century to Debussy offers the first comprehensive account of a widely recognized aspect of music history: the increasing use of pentatonic ("black-key scale") techniques in nineteenth-century Western art-music. Pentatonicism in nineteenth-century music encompasses hundreds of instances, many of which predate by decades the more famous examples of Debussy and Dvorák. This book weaves together historical commentary with music theory and analysis in order to explain the sources and significance of an important, but hitherto only casually understood, phenomenon. The book introduces several distinct categories of pentatonicpractice -- pastoral, primitive, exotic, religious, and coloristic -- and examines pentatonicism in relationship to changes in the melodic and harmonic sensibility of the time. The text concludes with an additional appendix of over 400 examples, an unprecedented resource demonstrating the individual artistry with which virtually every major nineteenth-century composer (from Schubert, Chopin, and Berlioz to Liszt, Wagner, and Mahler) handled theseemingly "simple" materials of pentatonicism. Jeremy Day-O'Connell is assistant professor of music at Knox College.

Wagner and Venice
Wagner and Venice

Author: John W. Barker

Publisher: University Rochester Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 9781580462884

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Explores Wagner's lengthy stays in Venice, his death there, and the meaning of his works -- and his death -- for that great city and its mystique.

Musicking Shakespeare
Musicking Shakespeare

Author: Daniel Albright

Publisher: University Rochester Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9781580462556

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In this book, Albright, one of today's most intrepid explorers of the border territory between literature and music, offers insights into how composers of genius can help us to understand Shakespeare.

In Search of New Scales
In Search of New Scales

Author: Sylvia Kahan

Publisher: University Rochester Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 1580463053

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The first publication and exploration of a pathbreaking treatise on what would become a crucial element in the music of Stravinsky and Ravel: the octatonic scale.