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Informationen zum Autor Laura Tunbridge is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Manchester. She is the author of Schumann's Late Style (2007) and co-editor of Rethinking Schumann, as well as having contributed chapters and articles to The Cambridge Companion to Schumann (2007), The Musical Quarterly, Music and Letters, the Cambridge Opera Journal, Opera Quarterly and The Journal of the Royal Musical Association. Klappentext Investigating the song cycle from Beethoven to today, this introduction covers all the key concepts of this important musical genre. Zusammenfassung Using a wide range of examples from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century! this is an invaluable introduction to the important musical genre of the song cycle. It considers social and performance contexts! the impact of recording technology and how the song cycle interacts with operatic! symphonic and popular music. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chronology; 1. Concepts; 2. Wanderers and balladeers; 3. Performance: the long nineteenth century; 4. Gendered voices; 5. Between opera and symphony; 6. Travels abroad; 7. Modern subjects; 8. Death of the song cycle; 9. Performance: the twentieth century; 10. Afterlife: the late twentieth century; 11. Rebirth: pop song cycles; Guide to further reading.
