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Crossing paths : Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms
This book explores the connections between art and life in the works of three giants of musical romanticism. Drawing on contemporary critical theory and a wide variety of 19th-century sources, it considers topics including Schubert and Schumann's uncanny ability to evoke memory in music, the supposed cryptographic practices of Schumann and Brahms, and the allure of the Hungarian Gypsy style for Brahms and others in the Schumann circle. The book offers a fresh perspective on the music of these composers, including a discussion of the 19th-century practice of cryptography, a debunking of the myth that Schumann and Brahms planted codes for “Clara Schumann’ throughout their works, and attention to the late works of Schumann not as evidence of the composer's descent into madness but as inspiration for his successors. The book portrays the three key players as musical storytellers, each in his own way simulating the structure of lived experience in works of art.
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Returning cycles : contexts for the interpretation of Schubert's impromptus and last sonatas
This compelling investigation of the later music of Franz Schubert explores the rich terrain of Schubert's impromptus and last piano sonatas. Drawing on the relationships between these pieces and Schubert's Winterreise song cycle, his earlier \"Der Wanderer,\" the closely related \"Unfinished\" Symphony, and his story of exile and homecoming, \"My Dream,\" Charles Fisk explains how Schubert's view of his own life may well have shaped his music in the years shortly before his death. Fisk's intimate portrayal of Schubert is based on evidence from the composer's own 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 analyses 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. Fisk's knowledge of Schubert's life and music, together with his astute and imaginative attention to musical detail, helps him achieve one of the most difficult goals in music criticism: to capture and verbalize the human content of instrumental music.
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The Cambridge companion to Schubert's Winterreise
This companion is designed for upper-level undergraduates and masters students. It explores the music and contexts of Schubert's venerated song cycle 'Winterreise' (1827) - twenty-four settings of poems by Wilhelm Müller depicting a solitary wanderer's alienation, disorientation, and despair suffered amidst a bleak, frigid landscape.
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Analyzing Schubert
When Schubert's contemporary reviewers first heard his modulations, they famously claimed that they were excessive, odd and unplanned. This book argues that these claims have haunted the analysis of Schubert's harmony ever since, outlining why Schubert's music occupies a curiously marginal position in the history of music theory. Analyzing Schubert traces how critics, analysts and historians from the early nineteenth century to the present day have preserved cherished narratives of wandering, alienation, memory and trance by emphasizing the mystical rather than the logical quality of the composer's harmony. This study proposes a new method for analyzing the harmony of Schubert's works. Rather than pursuing an approach that casts Schubert's famous harmonic moves as digressions from the norms of canonical theoretical paradigms, Suzannah Clark explores how the harmonic fingerprints in Schubert's songs and instrumental sonata forms challenge pedigreed habits of thought about what constitutes a theory of tonal and formal order.
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Schubert : a musical wayfarer
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 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.
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Combining the Arts: Multimedia Performances in the Early 19th-Century Habsburg Empire
The opening paper session was on the theme of ballrooms, salons and theatres, and Erica Buurman (San José State University) gave the first, fascinating paper. Friday opened with a session entitled ‘Visualized Body Gestures and Literary Soundscapes’. Because speaker Bettina Brandl-Risi (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität) had fallen ill just before the conference, her paper on tableaux vivants had to be replaced. Swift work on the part of the organizers and the help of speaker Margit Legler (Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien) meant that the session began instead with two workshop activities on early nineteenth-century dramatic art.
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