Distant Cycles - Schubert and the Conceiving of Song

Acknowledgments I: Introduction 1: In Search of Song II: Strophe, Variant, Version 2: Der Jungling am Bache: Schubert at the Source 3: The Aesthetics of Revision III: Distant Cycles 4: A Poetics of the Remote: Goethe's Entfernte 5: In der Ferne: Schubert's Rellstab 6: Schubert's Heine IV: The Cycles in Winterreise 7: Winterreise I 8: Winterreise II V: Mysticism, Ecstasy, and the Sublime 9: Schlegel's Abendrote and the Failure of Cycle List of Works Cited Index of Names and Works

List of contents

Acknowledgments I: Introduction 1: In Search of Song II: Strophe, Variant, Version 2: Der Jungling am Bache: Schubert at the Source 3: The Aesthetics of Revision III: Distant Cycles 4: A Poetics of the Remote: Goethe's Entfernte 5: In der Ferne: Schubert's Rellstab 6: Schubert's Heine IV: The Cycles in Winterreise 7: Winterreise I 8: Winterreise II V: Mysticism, Ecstasy, and the Sublime 9: Schlegel's Abendrote and the Failure of Cycle List of Works Cited Index of Names and Works

Summary

Argues that Schubert envisioned many songs as components of cyclical arrangements that were never published as such. By studying Schubert's original manuscripts, Kramer recovers some of these "distant cycles" and accounts for idiosyncrasies in the songs which other analyses have failed to explain.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Kramer, Kramer Richard
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.1994
• EAN: 9780226452357
• ISBN: 978-0-226-45235-7
• No. of pages: 241
• Dimensions: 17 mm x 25 mm x 1 mm
• Weight: 425 g
• Series: Anthropology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs; Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, Composers and songwriters, Classical Music (C 1750 To C 1830), Classical style, Art music, orchestral and formal music