[PDF] Narrative And Robert Schumanns Songs eBook

Author : Andrew H. Weaver
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,37 MB
Release : 2024
Category : Music and literature
ISBN : 9781805433156

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"An innovative approach to analyzing and interpreting nineteenth-century German song, offering new perspectives on Robert Schumann's Lieder and song cycles. Robert Schumann's Lieder are among the richest and most complex songs in the repertoire and have long raised questions and stimulated discussion among scholars, performers, and listeners. Among the wide range of methodologies that have been used to understand and interpret his songs, one that has been conspicuously absent is an approach based on narratology (the theory and study of narrative texts). Proceeding from the premise that the performance of a Lied is a narrative act, in which the singer and pianist together function as a narrator, Andrew Weaver's groundbreaking study proposes a comprehensive theory of narratology for the German Romantic Lied and song cycle, using Schumann's complete song oeuvre as the test case. The theory, grounded in the work of narratologist Mieke Bal but also drawing upon recent work in literary theory and musicology, illuminates how music can open up new meanings for the poem, as well as how a narratological analysis of the poem can help us understand the music. Weaver's book offers new insights into Schumann's Lieder and the poetry he set while simultaneously proposing a methodology applicable to the analysis and interpretation of a wide range of works, including not only the rich treasury of German Lieder but also potentially any genre of accompanied song in any language from the Middle Ages to the present day"--

Author : Andrew H. Weaver
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 41,8 MB
Release : 2024
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1648250890

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Featuring 28 music examples this book takes an innovative approach to analyzing and interpreting nineteenth-century German song, offering new perspectives on Robert Schumann's Lieder and song cycles. Robert Schumann's Lieder are among the richest and most complex songs in the repertoire and have long raised questions and stimulated discussion among scholars, performers, and listeners. Among the wide range of methodologies that have been used to understand and interpret his songs, one that has been conspicuously absent is an approach based on narratology (the theory and study of narrative texts). Proceeding from the premise that the performance of a Lied is a narrative act, in which the singer and pianist together function as a narrator, Andrew Weaver's groundbreaking study proposes a comprehensive theory of narratology for the German Romantic Lied and song cycle, using Schumann's complete song oeuvre as the test case. The theory, grounded in the work of narratologist Mieke Bal but also drawing upon recent work in literary theory and musicology, illuminates how music can open up new meanings for the poem, as well as how a narratological analysis of the poem can help us understand the music. Weaver's book offers new insights into Schumann's Lieder and the poetry he set while simultaneously proposing a methodology applicable to the analysis and interpretation of a wide range of works, including not only the rich treasury of German Lieder but also potentially any genre of accompanied song in any language from the Middle Ages to the present day.

Author : Eric Sams
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 42,48 MB
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 0571280994

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Eric Sams' study of Schumann's 246 songs (Faber 1961, revised 1993) - a companion volume to his The Songs of Hugo Wolf, also available in Faber Finds - remains a classic text. By providing a translation, commentary and notes for each of the songs, tracing original sources and relating recurring themes vividly to Schumann's life, Sams provides a unique documentary of Schumann's song-writing art. The book includes a foreword (to the First Edition) by the legendary accompanist, Gerald Moore, who writes: 'So felicitous is the writing that one is hardly conscious of the erudition and profound thought that have gone into the making of it . . . Eric Sams has produced a work that will be read and read again as long as Robert Schumann's songs are loved.'

Author : Judith Chernaik
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 21,84 MB
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 0451494474

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Drawing on previously unpublished sources, this groundbreaking biography of Robert Schumann sheds new light on the great composer’s life and work. With the rigorous research of a scholar and the eloquent prose of a novelist, Judith Chernaik takes us into Schumann’s nineteenth-century Romantic milieu, where he wore many “masks” that gave voice to each corner of his soul. The son of a book publisher, he infused his pieces with literary ideas. He was passionately original but worshipped the past: Bach and Beethoven, Shake­speare and Byron. He believed in artistic freedom but struggled with constraints of form. His courtship and marriage to the brilliant pianist Clara Wieck—against her father’s wishes—is one of the great musical love stories of all time. Chernaik freshly explores his troubled relations with fellow composers Mendelssohn and Chopin, and the full medi­cal diary—long withheld—from the Endenich asylum where he spent his final years enables her to look anew at the mystery of his early death. By turns tragic and transcendent, Schumann shows how this extraordinary artist turned his tumultuous life into music that speaks directly—and timelessly—to the heart.

Author : Jon W. Finson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 47,41 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Music
ISBN : 0674026292

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Arguably no other 19th-century German composer was as literate or as finely attuned to setting verse as Robert Schumann. Finson challenges assumptions about Schumann’s Lieder, engaging traditionally held interpretations. Arranged in part thematically, rather than by strict compositional chronology, this book speaks to the heart of Schumann’s music.

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File Size : 42,60 MB
Release : 2008
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Robert Schumann's music is replete with literary references and extramusical indications. His devotion to literature and his adaptation of the narrative strategies of the early Romantics in his compositions have prompted many investigations of literary influences on Schumann's music. Many of his early piano cycles are inspired by the literature of the Romantics, and in particular by the novels of Jean Paul Richter. However, it has sometimes been suggested that Schumann discarded the narrative strategies of Jean Paul in his late compositions, some of which were written for musical education and music-making in the home. My goal, in this dissertation, is to demonstrate that Jean Paul's narrative devices remained relevant in Schumann's late works. This study examines the aspects of narrative and representation that permeate the Waldszenen cycle. The first aspect is large-cycle coherence, an effect that is achieved through innovative associational means -- including motivic and tonal cross-references-- and through more traditional hierarchical means, such as tonal departure and return and the use of programmatic titles that suggest a complete forest journey. The second aspect is the manipulation of formal conventions, which is accomplished through problematic closure, problematic recapitulation, and ambiguous formal function. The third aspect is the use of intertextual allusions to Schumann's earlier works. The last aspect of representation in Waldszenen is the use of three musical topics - fantasy, pastoral, and hunt - in association with their corresponding Romantic literary genres - Kunstmärchen, idyll, and hunting tale and song.

Author : Robert Schumann
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 10,23 MB
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 0486143090

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Includes 61 important critical pieces Schumann wrote for the Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik, 1834–1844. Perceptive evaluations of Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert, other giants; also Spohr, Moscheles, Field, other minor masters. Annotated.

Author : Thomas Tapper
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 11,48 MB
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Fiction
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Robt. Schumann" (The Story of the Boy Who Made Pictures in Music) by Thomas Tapper. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

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Page : 59 pages
File Size : 38,86 MB
Release : 2018
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Abstract Recognizing how to present a narrative while performing the music of Schumann and Chopin helps the performer to transmit the spirit of the music and convey expression in the music. In the music-making process, what we cannot discount is that the performer plays a crucial role in conveying musical expression to the listeners, which tremendously affects the quality of the entire musical experience. In this document, I argue that there is a qualitative difference between the ways in which performers should express the central story conveyed in the music of Robert Schumann compared with the story conveyed in the music of Frédéric Chopin, two composers whose music has often been the subject of narrative analyses. In performing Schumann's music, the performer experiences the narrative from a first-person perspective while playing the music. In Chopin, by contrast, the performer is more distanced from the story, acting as a kind of narrator in the position of telling a story within a narrative frame, something akin to a third-person perspective. In this document, I discuss these two perspectives in the piano music of Schumann and Chopin. I begin with an overview of musical narrative, followed by an exploration of the elements of narrative in these composers' music. I then proceed to provide analyses of their piano music in terms of form and structure. In the last chapter, I suggest some performance interpretations for the pianist that reinforce the different narratological perspectives I identify in the music of both Schumann and Chopin. I conclude by arguing how the result of my analysis can benefit a pianist's interpretation, and how that interpretation in turn can affect the audience's musical experience.