Of Poetry and Song. Approaches to the Nineteenth-Century Lied

Singers and pianists never tire of exploring the songs of Schubert and Schumann, Wolf and Mahler. But discussions of these marvelous works have too often given only brief consideration to the artistry of the poems-by such masters as Goethe, Heine, and Eichendorff-and to the composers' insightful interaction with that verbal art.

"Of Poetry and Song: Approaches to the Nineteenth-Century Lied" is an anthology of truly interdisciplinary studies of text-music relations in the German Lied. Thechapters gathered in it (including some published here for the first time in English or indeed at all) were written by two musicologists -- Rufus Hallmark and Jürgen Thym -- and two German-literature specialists-Harry Seelig and the late Ann C. Fehn.BR> An extensive introduction by the volume's editor, Jürgen Thym, considers the fruitful ways in which the four authors meet the challenge of combining literary and musical analysis.

CONTENIDO:
1.- On Schubert Reading Poetry: A Primer in the Rhythm of Poetry and Music
2.- The Musical "Spirit" of Goethe's "Suleika": Schubert's Settings D. 720 and D. 717
3.- Text-Music Relations in Schumann's Eichendorff Song" Frühlingsfahrt"
4.- Hugo Wolf's Ghazal Settings from "Das Schenkenbuch" ofGoethe's West-östlicher Divan
5.- Karl Weigl's Opus 1 in Its Nineteenth-Century Context: A Historic Literary-Musical Fusion of Goethe's "Wanderers Nachtlied" and "Ein Gleiches"
6.- "Hans Adam"-Goethe's Parodistic Creation Myth: A Parody Parodied by Hugo Wolf and Richard Strauss
7.- Text and Music in Schubert's Settings of Pentameter Poetry
9.- Repetition as Structure in the German Lied: The Ghazal
11.- Sonnet Structure and the German Lied: Shackles or Spurs?
13.- Schubert's Strategies in Setting Free Verse
15.- Hugo Wolf and Goethe's "Duodrama": Toward a "Better Understanding" of the Problematic Divan-Trinity ofLife, Love, and Spirit
16.- Text and Music in Mahler's Kindertotenlieder
17.- The Rückert Lieder of Robert and Clara Schumann
18.- A Cycle in Flux: Schumann's Eichendorff Liederkreis
19.- Why Dichterliebe Twice? The Case of Schumann's Opus 24 and Opus 48
20.- Discovering "Musical Impressionism" by Way of Eichendorff and Schumann: Wolf and Pfitzner at the Threshold
21.- Index