The lied : the unfolding of its style / Anneliese Landau.
| Author/creator | Landau, Anneliese |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Washington, D.C. : University Press of America, ©1980. |
| Description | vi, 138 pages : music ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Aspects and forms of the art song. Poetry as a source of inspiration ( Incidental music, aria, scena, arietta, cavatina, canzone, chanson, chansonette) ; Music as an interpreter of poetry -- The evolution of the lied. From social entertainment to emotional confessions of an artist ; Joseph Haydn ; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; Ludwig van Beethoven -- The lied composer: Franz Schubert. The form: Schubert's strophic structures ; The one strophic form ; The pure strophic form ; The varied strophic form ( Harmonic variation ; Melodic variations ; The shaping force of the piano) ; he three-part from ; The two-part form ; The style ( Melodic phrasing ; The instrumental version of lieder ; Interpretation by repetition ; Interpretation by text-changes) ; Dramatization ( The recitative ; The ballad) ; The strophic cantata ; The lied cycle ( Die schone mullerin ; Winterreise ; Schwanengesang) -- Robert Schumann: the pianist writes lieder. Schumann's piano ( Floating harmonies ; Freedom in rhythm ; Psychological interpretation ; The voice as interpreter, the piano as mere accompanist) ; Presentiments of Hugo Wolf's style ; The ballads ; Schumann and his poets ( Goethe ; Rueckert ; Heine) -- The Biedermeier. Felix Mendelssohn ; The ballad ( Carl Loewe ; Heinrich Marschner ; Chopin and Liszt) ; Robert Franz ; Peter Cornelius: the bridge from Biedermeier to late romanticism -- Johannes Brahms. Similarities between Schumann and Brahms rhythmical freedom ; Linking different poems ; Differences between Schumann and Brahms ( Liedforms ; The A-B-A forms) ; Deutsche Volkslieder ; Instrumental versions of lieder -- New dimensions. Music and speech: Modeste Moussorgsky [Mussorgsky] ; Music, a servant of poetry: Hugo Wolf ( Ballads ; Lyrical poems) ; A new accompaniment: the orchestra-Gustav Mahler ( The Lied and the orchestra ; The Lied and the symphony ; Das Lied von der Erde) -- The decline of the Lied. Opera invades the Lied: Richard Strauss ; Polyphony invades the Lied: Max Reger ; The standstill: Hans Pfitzner -- The new language of the 20th century. Arnold Schoenberg ; Alban Berg ; Anton von Webern -- New horizons. Paul Hindemith ; Aaron Copland ; Benjamin Britten ( Les Illuminations ; Seven sonnets by Michelangelo ; Nine holy sonnets ; Serenade ; Nocturne ; Winter words ; Holderlin fragments ; Songs and proverbs). |
| Local note | Little-129802 - $15.95 |
| Bibliography note | Discography: pages 123-133. |
| Bibliography note | Bibliography: pages 135-138. |
| LCCN | 79006728 |
| ISBN | 0819109355 : |
| ISBN | 9780819109354 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 0819109363 (pbk.) : |
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