Narrative and Robert Schumann's Songs (eBook)

A New Approach to the Romantic Lied

Andrew H. Weaver (Autor)

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2024
288 Seiten
Boydell & Brewer Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80543-314-9 (ISBN)

Infos

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 some of the richest and most complex songs in the repertoire and have long raised questions and stimulated discussion among scholars, performers, and listeners. While a wide range of methodologies has 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.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments
Note on Online Material
Introduction
Part One: A Theory of Narratology for the Lied
1. Narratological Foundations: The Lied as Narrative Text
2. Narrative Agency: Narrators, Characters, Focalizers
3. Narrative Action: Events in Lyric Poetry and Lieder
Part Two: Schumann's Lieder through the Narratological Lens
4. Narrating in Song: Analyses of Individual Lieder
5. Schumann and the Ballad
6. Multiplying Voices: Schumann's Songs for Two, Three, and Four Voices
7. Schumann's Cycles
Postlude
Glossary of Narratological Terms
Bibliography
Index of Schumann's Songs
General Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.6.2024
• Reihe/Serie: Eastman Studies in Music
• Zusatzinfo: 28 musical exx. and 4 b/w illus.
• Verlagsort: Rochester
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Instrumentenkunde
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Singen / Musizieren
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: German composer • German Lieder • Music analysis • music studies • Narratology • Piano Concerto • Poetry • romantic era • Romanticism • Song Cycles
• ISBN-10: 1-80543-314-8 / 1805433148
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80543-314-9 / 9781805433149