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Subject(s)

• Schubert, Franz 1797-1828—Winterreise [Browse]

Editor

• Hirsch, Marjorie Wing [Browse]
• Feurzeig, Lisa [Browse]

Series

Cambridge companions to music. [More in this series]

Summary note

Organized in five parts, this Companion enhances understanding of Schubert's Winterreise by approaching it from multiple angles. Part I examines the political, cultural, and musical environments in which Winterreise was created. Part II focuses on the poet Wilhelm Müller, his 24-poem cycle Die Winterreise, and changes Schubert made to it in fashioning his musical setting. Part III illuminates Winterreise by exploring its relation to contemporaneous understandings of psychology and science, and early nineteenth-century social and political conditions. Part IV focuses more directly on the song cycle, exploring the listener's identification with the cycle's protagonist, text-music relations in individual songs, Schubert's compositional 'fingerprints', aspects of continuity and discontinuity among the songs, and the cycle's relation to German Romanticism. Part V concentrates on Winterreise in the nearly two centuries since its completion in 1827, including lyrical and dramatic performance traditions, the cycle's influence on later composers, and its numerous artistic reworkings.

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Contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Series page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Music Examples
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Note on Pitch
• Chronology
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction: An Endless Winter Journey
• Part I Schubert's Winterreise and Its Musical Heritage
• 1 Music and Culture in Schubert's Vienna
• 2 Tradition and Innovation in Schubert's Lieder
• 3 Precursors to Winterreise: Songs of Winter and Wandering, the Early Song Cycle
• Part II Die Winterreise: Poetic Cycle
• 4 Wilhelm Müller's Odyssey
• 5 Schubert's Treatment of Müller's Poems: Some Issues
• Part III Cultural and Historical Contexts
• 6 Two Perspectives on Psychology in Winterreise: Section 1: The Emerging Discipline of Psychology
• 7 Nature and Science in Winterreise
• 8 On the Move: Outcasts, Wanderers, and the Political Landscape of Die Winterreise
• Part IV Winterreise: Song Cycle
• 9 Identification in Die schöne Müllerin and Winterreise
• 10 Text-Music Relationships
• 11 A Winter of Poetry: Connections Among the Songs in Schubert's Winterreise
• 12 Discontinuity in Winterreise
• Part V Winterreise After 1827
• 13 Performance and Reception
• 14 Canonicity and Influence
• Appendix: Texts and Translations
• Guide to Further Reading
• Index.

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ISBN

• 9781108967341
• 1108967345
• 9781108966146
• 1108966144

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