Dichterliebe

An original concept: in one volume, a study-size score of a major musical work, and a comprehensive body of tools for the study of that work.
- A score embodying the best available musical text
- Historical background - what is know of the circumstances surrounding the origin of the work, including (where relevant) original source material
- A detailed analysis of the music, by the editor of the volume or another well-know scholar
- Other significant analytic essays and citical comments, exposing the student to a variety of opinions about the music

Music examples and charts illustrate the analyses, and each essay is fully annotated by the editor. In some cases, the results of original research by the editor or by others working in the field are published here for the first time. Much of the material has never before appeared in English.

CONTENIDO:

Preface

Historical background
- From Heine's poems into Schumann's Songs

The score of Dichterliebe
- The score
- Textual note

Essays in analysis
- Arthur Komar - The music of Dichterliebe: The whole and its parts
- Heinrich Schenker - (Song 2)
- Allen Forte - (Schenker's analysis of song 2)
- Heinrich Schenker - (Song 3)
- Heinrich Schenker - (Song 4)
- Felix Salzer - (The opening of song 5)

Commentary
- Meno Spann - (The heine of the early poems)
- Edward T. Cone - (Ich grolle nicht)
- Edvard Grieg - (Schumann's Songs)
- Leon B. Plantinga - (Schumann's conversion to vocal music)
- Robert Schumann - (Excerpts from letters)
- Robert Schumann - (Excerpts from articles)
Bibliography