Death in Winterreise

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253011086
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis Death in Winterreise by : Lauri Suurpää

Download or read book Death in Winterreise written by Lauri Suurpää and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-06 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lauri Suurpää brings together two rigorous methodologies, Greimassian semiotics and Schenkerian analysis, to provide a unique perspective on the expressive power of Franz Schubert's song cycle. Focusing on the final songs, Suurpää deftly combines textual and tonal analysis to reveal death as a symbolic presence if not actual character in the musical narrative. Suurpää demonstrates the incongruities between semantic content and musical representation as it surfaces throughout the final songs. This close reading of the winter songs, coupled with creative applications of theory and a thorough history of the poetic and musical genesis of this work, brings new insights to the study of text-music relationships and the song cycle.

Schubert's Winterreise

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Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299186005
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Book Synopsis Schubert's Winterreise by : Franz Schubert

Download or read book Schubert's Winterreise written by Franz Schubert and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book/CD package guides readers and listeners on a journey through Franz Schubert's Winterreise song cycle, in which the composer set the poetry of Wilhelm Muller to music. The complete text of the 24 poems is presented in both German and English, with 116 b&w photographs of winter scenes on the facing pages. An introductory essay by Susan Youens (musicology, U. of Notre Dame) offers a critical examination of the song cycle. The music CD features a new recording of Winterreise, performed by baritone Paul Rowe and pianist Martha Fischer. Oversize: 10.25x10.25". Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Schubert's Winter Journey

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307961648
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Book Synopsis Schubert's Winter Journey by : Ian Bostridge

Download or read book Schubert's Winter Journey written by Ian Bostridge and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the world’s most famous and challenging song cycle, Schubert's Winter Journey (Winterreise), by a leading interpreter of the work, who teases out the themes—literary, historical, psychological—that weave through the twenty-four songs that make up this legendary masterpiece. Completed in the last months of the young Schubert’s life, Winterreise has come to be considered the single greatest piece of music in the history of Lieder. Deceptively laconic—these twenty-four short poems set to music for voice and piano are performed uninterrupted in little more than an hour—it nonetheless has an emotional depth and power that no music of its kind has ever equaled. A young man, rejected by his beloved, leaves the house where he has been living and walks out into snow and darkness. As he wanders away from the village and into the empty countryside, he experiences a cascade of emotions—loss, grief, anger, and acute loneliness, shot through with only fleeting moments of hope—until the landscape he inhabits becomes one of alienation and despair. Originally intended to be sung to an intimate gathering, performances of Winterreise now pack the greatest concert halls around the world. Drawing equally on his vast experience performing this work (he has sung it more than one hundred times), on his musical knowledge, and on his training as a scholar, Bostridge teases out the enigmas and subtle meanings of each of the twenty-four lyrics to explore for us the world Schubert inhabited, his biography and psychological makeup, the historical and political pressures within which he became one of the world’s greatest composers, and the continuing resonances and affinities that our ears still detect today, making Schubert’s wanderer our mirror.

The Cambridge Companion to Schubert's ‘Winterreise'

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108832849
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Schubert's ‘Winterreise' by : Marjorie W. Hirsch

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Schubert's ‘Winterreise' written by Marjorie W. Hirsch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible multi-disciplinary exploration of Franz Schubert's haunting late song cycle Winterreise (1827) that combines context and different analytical approaches.

Returning Cycles

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520225643
Total Pages : 324 pages
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Book Synopsis Returning Cycles by : Charles Fisk

Download or read book Returning Cycles written by Charles Fisk and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-03-12 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fisk's portrayal of Schubert is based on evidence from the composer's 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 analysis 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."--BOOK JACKET.

The Cambridge Companion to Schubert's ‘Winterreise'

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108967132
Total Pages : 307 pages
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Schubert's ‘Winterreise' by : Marjorie W. Hirsch

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Schubert's ‘Winterreise' written by Marjorie W. Hirsch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized in five parts, this Companion enhances understanding of Schubert's Winterreise by approaching it from multiple angles. Part I examines the political, cultural, and musical environments in which Winterreise was created. Part II focuses on the poet Wilhelm Müller, his 24-poem cycle Die Winterreise, and changes Schubert made to it in fashioning his musical setting. Part III illuminates Winterreise by exploring its relation to contemporaneous understandings of psychology and science, and early nineteenth-century social and political conditions. Part IV focuses more directly on the song cycle, exploring the listener's identification with the cycle's protagonist, text-music relations in individual songs, Schubert's compositional 'fingerprints', aspects of continuity and discontinuity among the songs, and the cycle's relation to German Romanticism. Part V concentrates on Winterreise in the nearly two centuries since its completion in 1827, including lyrical and dramatic performance traditions, the cycle's influence on later composers, and its numerous artistic reworkings.

The New Grove Schubert

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393315868
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (158 download)

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Book Synopsis The New Grove Schubert by : Maurice John Edwin Brown

Download or read book The New Grove Schubert written by Maurice John Edwin Brown and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1983 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life of Franz Schubert, describes the development of his muscial career, and discusses the composition of his major works.

The Unknown Schubert

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Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754661924
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (619 download)

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Book Synopsis The Unknown Schubert by : Barbara M. Reul

Download or read book The Unknown Schubert written by Barbara M. Reul and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franz Schubert (1797-1828) is now rightly recognized as one of the greatest and most original composers of the nineteenth century. Schubert steadily graced Viennese musical life with his songs, piano music and chamber compositions. Throughout his career he experimented constantly with technique and in his final years began experiments with form. The resultant fascinating works were never performed in his lifetime, and only in recent years have the nature of his experiments found scholarly favor. In The Unknown Schubert contributors explore Schubert's radical modernity from a number of perspectives by examining both popular and neglected works. Chapters by renowned scholars describe the historical context of his work, its relation to the dominant artistic discourses of the early nineteenth century, and Schubert's role in the paradigmatic shift to a new perception of song.

Retracing a Winter's Journey

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Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801468280
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Book Synopsis Retracing a Winter's Journey by : Susan Youens

Download or read book Retracing a Winter's Journey written by Susan Youens and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-14 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I like these songs better than all the rest, and someday you will too, Franz Schubert told the friends who were the first to hear his song cycle, Winterreise. These lieder have always found admiring audiences, but the poetry he chose to set them to has been widely regarded as weak and trivial. In Retracing a Winter's Journey, Susan Youens looks not only at Schubert's music but at the poetry, drawn from the works of Wilhelm Müller, who once wrote in his diary, "perhaps there is a kindred spirit somewhere who will hear the tunes behind the words and give them back to me!" Youens maintains that Müller, in depicting the wanderings of the alienated lover, produced poetry that was simple but not simple-minded, poetry that embraced simplicity as part of its meaning. In her view, Müller used the ruder folk forms to give his verse greater immediacy, to convey more powerfully the wanderer's complex inner state. Youens addresses many different aspects of Winterreise: the cultural milieu to which it belonged, the genesis of both the poetry and the music, Schubert's transformation of poetic cycle into music, the philosophical dimension of the work, and its musical structure.

A Singer's Notebook

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Publisher : Faber & Faber Classical Music & Dance
ISBN 13 : 9780571252466
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book A Singer's Notebook written by Ian Bostridge and published by Faber & Faber Classical Music & Dance. This book was released on 2015-04-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Singer's Notebook by Ian Bostridge, of whom The New Yorker said, 'He is not a good singer; he is a great one.'

Schubert: Die Schöne Müllerin

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521422796
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (227 download)

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Book Synopsis Schubert: Die Schöne Müllerin by : Susan Youens

Download or read book Schubert: Die Schöne Müllerin written by Susan Youens and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-08-28 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide to Schubert's much-loved song cycle explores both the music and the poetry from a variety of perspectives. It includes biography and cultural history, literary interpretation, source studies, and musical analysis. The genesis of both Wilhelm Müller's poetry, which began as a literary salon game in 1816, and the music, composed soon after Schubert discovered that he had contracted syphilis, is discussed in the first two chapters, which also include little-known information about the poet, the premier of the cycle, and Eduard Hanslick's critiques later in the nineteenth century. The chapters on the poetry discuss Müller's uneasy relationship to the tenets of Romanticism; the influence of Goethe, folk poems, and medieval poetry on Die schöne Mullerin; and provide a reading of each of the poems, which are reproduced in German and English translation. The last and lengthiest chapter consists of brief analytical commentary on each of the twenty songs in Schubert's masterpiece.

Roy Thomson Hall

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Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459718763
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Book Synopsis Roy Thomson Hall by : William Littler

Download or read book Roy Thomson Hall written by William Littler and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2013-06-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roy Thomson Hall commemorates its 30th anniversary with this lavishly illustrated book tracing its history from Arthur Erickson's iconic design, to the artists, audiences, volunteers, and staff who have enriched and enlivened the hall since its opening in 1982.

The Winter's Tale Annotated

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (631 download)

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Book Synopsis The Winter's Tale Annotated by : William Shakespeare

Download or read book The Winter's Tale Annotated written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare, first published in the First Folio in 1623. Although it was listed as a comedy when it first appeared, some modern editors have relabeled the play a romance. Some critics, among them W. W. Lawrence (Lawrence, 9-13), consider it to be one of Shakespeare's "problem plays", because the first three acts are filled with intense psychological drama, while the last two acts are comedic and supply a happy ending.

Franz Schubert and His World

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691163804
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Book Synopsis Franz Schubert and His World by : Christopher H. Gibbs

Download or read book Franz Schubert and His World written by Christopher H. Gibbs and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-17 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life, times, and music of Franz Schubert During his short lifetime, Franz Schubert (1797–1828) contributed to a wide variety of musical genres, from intimate songs and dances to ambitious chamber pieces, symphonies, and operas. The essays and translated documents in Franz Schubert and His World examine his compositions and ties to the Viennese cultural context, revealing surprising and overlooked aspects of his music. Contributors explore Schubert's youthful participation in the Nonsense Society, his circle of friends, and changing views about the composer during his life and in the century after his death. New insights are offered about the connections between Schubert’s music and the popular theater of the day, his strategies for circumventing censorship, the musical and narrative relationships linking his song settings of poems by Gotthard Ludwig Kosegarten, and musical tributes he composed to commemorate the death of Beethoven just twenty months before his own. The book also includes translations of excerpts from a literary journal produced by Schubert’s classmates and of Franz Liszt’s essay on the opera Alfonso und Estrella. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Leon Botstein, Lisa Feurzeig, John Gingerich, Kristina Muxfeldt, and Rita Steblin.

Unmasking Ravel

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Publisher : University Rochester Press
ISBN 13 : 1580463371
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis Unmasking Ravel by : Peter Kaminsky

Download or read book Unmasking Ravel written by Peter Kaminsky and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of critical and analytical scholarly essays on the music of Ravel by prominent scholars. Unmasking Ravel: New Perspectives on the Music fills a unique place in Ravel studies by combining critical interpretation and analytical focus. From the premiere of his works up to the present, Ravel has been associated with masks and the related notions of artifice and imposture. This has led scholars to perceive a lack of depth in his music and, consequently, to discourage investigation of his musical language. This volume balances and interweavesthese modes of inquiry. Part 1, "Orientations and Influences," illuminates the sometimes contradictory aesthetic, biographical, and literary strands comprising Ravel's artistry and our understanding of it. Part 2, "Analytical Case Studies," engages representative works from Ravel's major genres using a variety of methodologies, focusing on structural process and his complex relation to stylistic convention. Part 3, "Interdisciplinary Studies," integratesmusical analysis and art criticism, semiotics, and psychoanalysis in creating novel methodologies. Contributors include prominent scholars of Ravel's and fin-de-siècle music: Elliott Antokoletz, Gurminder Bhogal, Sigrun B. Heinzelmann, Volker Helbing, Steven Huebner, Peter Kaminsky, Barbara Kelly, David Korevaar, Daphne Leong, Michael Puri, and Lauri Suurpää. Peter Kaminsky is Professor of Music at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.

Franz Schubert

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Franz Schubert by : Elizabeth Norman McKay

Download or read book Franz Schubert written by Elizabeth Norman McKay and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his short, tumultuous life, Franz Schubert (1797-1828) produced an astonishing amount of music. Symphonies, chamber music, opera, church music, and songs (more than 600 of them) poured forth in profusion. His "Trout" Quintet, his "Unfinished" Symphony, the last three piano sonatas, and above all his song cycles Die Schone Mullerin and Winterreise have come to be universally regarded as belonging to the very greatest works of music? Who was the man who composed this amazing succession of masterpieces, so many of which were either entirely ignored or regarded as failures during his lifetime? In this new biography, Elizabeth McKay paints a vivid portrait of Schubert and his world. She explores his family background, his education and musical upbringing, his friendships, and his brushes and flirtations with the repressive authorities of Church and State. She discusses his experience of the arts, literature, and theater, and his relations with the professional and amateur musical world of his day. She traces the way Schubert's manic-depression became an increasingly significant influence in his life, responsible at least in part for social inadequacies, professional ineptitude, and idiosyncrasies in his music. And she examines Schubert's decline after he contracted syphilis, looking at its effect on his music and emotional life.

Schubert's Poets and the Making of Lieder

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521778626
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (786 download)

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Book Synopsis Schubert's Poets and the Making of Lieder by : Susan Youens

Download or read book Schubert's Poets and the Making of Lieder written by Susan Youens and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-10-28 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A re-examination of the life and work of four poets and Schubert's settings of their verse.