This new study draws on analysis, literary criticism, and source studies to propose a new conception of the nineteenth-century romantic cycle. Rather than a unified whole, the cycle is seen as a fragmentary and open-ended form, which enables Schumann to express the romantic themes of transcendence and ineffability in musical terms.
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"...ambitious and often provocative study of Schumann's great Eichendorff cycle."--Current Musicology
"Ferris's book is a welcome addition to Oxford's 'Schumann Series.' It is refreshing to read a study of the Romantic song cycle whose primary focus is not Dichterliebe....Most of Ferris's musical analysis....grows out of equally poetic analysis. Just as he is able to probe beneath the apparent simplicity of the poetry, so does he locate ambiguities and complexities in Schumann's deceptively simple musical settings."--Music Theory Online
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David Ferris is at Rice University, Texas.
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As the title of this book suggests, it is concerned both with the genre of the Romantic cycle in general and with Robert Schumann's Eichendorff Liederkreis, opus 39, in particular. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
integrated musical whole, piano draft, formal organicism, cyclic coherence, vocal sketches, foreground graph, cadential measure, final vocal phrase, contrapuntal pattern, weak opening, piano cycles, upbeat measure, tonic arrival, melodic closure, neighboring motion, tonic harmony, song publications, third strophe, song reviews, perfect authentic cadence, cyclic unity, song cycle, die stille, motivic relationships, tonic resolution Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Schöne Fremde, Clara Wieck, Schumann's Eichendorff, Barbara Turchin, Friedrich Schlegel, Eichendorff Liederkret, Monat Mai, Arthur Komar, August Wilhelm Schlegel, David Neumeyer, Carl Löwe, Charles Rosen, Jena Romantics, Ruckert Lieder, Und Keiner, Der Nußbaum, Eichendorff Liederkrei, John Daverio, Oswald Lorenz, Rufus Hallmark New!
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As the title of this book suggests, it is concerned both with the genre of the Romantic cycle in general and with Robert Schumann's Eichendorff Liederkreis, opus 39, in particular. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
integrated musical whole, piano draft, formal organicism, cyclic coherence, vocal sketches, foreground graph, cadential measure, final vocal phrase, contrapuntal pattern, weak opening, piano cycles, upbeat measure, tonic arrival, melodic closure, neighboring motion, tonic harmony, song publications, third strophe, song reviews, perfect authentic cadence, cyclic unity, song cycle, die stille, motivic relationships, tonic resolution Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Schöne Fremde, Clara Wieck, Schumann's Eichendorff, Barbara Turchin, Friedrich Schlegel, Eichendorff Liederkret, Monat Mai, Arthur Komar, August Wilhelm Schlegel, David Neumeyer, Carl Löwe, Charles Rosen, Jena Romantics, Ruckert Lieder, Und Keiner, Der Nußbaum, Eichendorff Liederkrei, John Daverio, Oswald Lorenz, Rufus Hallmark New!
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- The Romantic Generation (Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) by Charles Rosen on 16 pages
- Schumann As Critic (Da Capo Press music reprint series) by Leon B. Plantinga on 5 pages
- Friedrich Schlegel by Hans Eichner on 5 pages
- German Lieder in the Nineteenth Century by Rufus Hallmark on 4 pages
- Schenker Studies (v. 1) by Hedi Siegel on 4 pages
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- Conceptualizing Music: Cognitive Structure, Theory, and Analysis (AMS Studies in Music) by Lawrence M. Zbikowski on page 276, and Back Matter
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