Schumann's Piano Cycles and the Novels of Jean Paul
Title | Schumann's Piano Cycles and the Novels of Jean Paul PDF eBook |
Author | Erika Reiman |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 158046145X |
A study on the influence which the German novelist Jean Paul Friedrich Richter had upon Robert Schumann's music.
Schumann's Music and E.T.A. Hoffmann's Fiction
Title | Schumann's Music and E.T.A. Hoffmann's Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | John MacAuslan |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 297 |
Release | 2016-05-19 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1107141230 |
John MacAuslan interprets four great Schumann works in the context of their literary connections and Romantic aesthetic concepts.
Schumann's Music and E. T. A. Hoffmann's Fiction
Title | Schumann's Music and E. T. A. Hoffmann's Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | John MacAuslan |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 297 |
Release | 2019-01-24 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1316558878 |
Four of Schumann's great masterpieces of the 1830s - Carnaval, Fantasiestücke, Kreisleriana and Nachtstücke - are connected to the fiction of E. T. A. Hoffmann. In this book, John MacAuslan traces Schumann's stylistic shifts during this period to offer insights into the expressive musical patterns that give shape, energy and individuality to each work. MacAuslan also relates the works to Schumann's reception of Bach, Beethoven, Novalis and Jean Paul, and focuses on primary sources in his wide-ranging discussion of the broader intellectual and aesthetic contexts. Uncovering lines of influence from Schumann's reading to his writings, and reflecting on how the aesthetic concepts involved might be used today, this book transforms the way Schumann's music and its literary connections can be understood and will be essential reading for musicologists, performers and listeners with an interest in Schumann, early nineteenth-century music and German Romantic culture.
Robert Schumann's Leipzig Chamber Works
Title | Robert Schumann's Leipzig Chamber Works PDF eBook |
Author | Julie Hedges Brown |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2024 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0197749461 |
This book explores the multi-movement Leipzig chamber works composed by Robert Schumann (1810-56). It adopts a two-pronged approach. On the one hand, it shows how this repertory illuminates Schumann's response to certain past and contemporary composers; to his own youthful, experimental past; and to various literary and cultural influences. At the same time, the book explores how different people have heard this music: listeners in Schumann's own day and beyond, in both Germanic and non-Germanic regions, and comprising the voices of critics, performers, audiences, even figures in disciplines outside of music.
Schumann
Title | Schumann PDF eBook |
Author | John C. Tibbetts |
Publisher | Hal Leonard Corporation |
Pages | 517 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1574671855 |
Schumann - A Chorus of Voices is a Hal Leonard publication.
The Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub
Title | The Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub PDF eBook |
Author | John C. Tibbetts |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 2016-08-29 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1476664927 |
Horror novelist Peter Straub creates highly personalized fiction with an allusiveness and ambiguity that deny the genre's explicit nature. For him, the Gothic style is to be created and recreated in a changing world--Faustian pacts, buried secrets, haunted places, ghosts, vampires and succubi take on strange new shapes and effects. Stephen King describes Straub's style as "a synthesis of horror and beauty." Drawing on interviews with Straub and featuring an exclusive interview with King, this study explores the work of the author who has been called "a writer of rare wit and intelligence in a field beset with cynical potboilers" (Douglas E. Winter, Washington Post, October 14, 1984).
The Cambridge Companion to Schumann
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Schumann PDF eBook |
Author | Beate Perrey |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | |
Release | 2007-06-28 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1139826379 |
This Companion is an accessible introduction to Schumann: his time, his temperament, his style and his œuvre. An international team of scholars explores the cultural context, musical and poetic fabric, sources of inspiration and interpretative reach of key works from the Schumann repertoire ranging from his famous lieder and piano pieces to chamber, orchestral and dramatic works. Additional chapters address Schumann's presence in nineteenth- and twentieth-century composition and the fascinating reception history of his late works. Tables, illustrations, a detailed chronology and advice on further reading make it an ideally informative handbook for both the Schumann connoisseur and the music lover. An excellent textbook for the university student of courses on key composers of nineteenth-century Western Classical music, it is an invaluable guide for all who are interested in the thought, aesthetics and affective power of one of the most intriguing figures of a culturally rich and formative period.