Rethinking Schumann / edited by Roe-Min Kok, Laura Tunbridge.
| Other author | Kok, Roe-Min, editor. |
| Other author | Tunbridge, Laura, 1974- editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2011. |
| Description | xv, 471 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Political sphere. Robert Schumann and the culture of German nationhood / Celia Applegate ; Organizing German musical life at midcentury: Brendel, Schumann, and the Leipzig Tonkünstlerversammlungen and Tonkünstlerverein / James Deaville ; Cry of the Schuhu: dissonanant history in a late Schumann song / Susan Youens ; Segregating sound: Robert Schumann in the Third Reich / Lily E. Hirsch -- Popular influences. At the interstice between "popular" and "classical": Schumann's poems of Queen Mary Stuart and European sentimentality at midcentury / Jon W. Finson ; Who was Mignon? What was she? Popular Catholicism and Schumann's Requiem, Op. 98b / Roe-Min Kok ; Entzückt: Schumann, Raphael, Faust / Nicholas Marston ; Schumann and agencies of improvisation / Dana Gooley ; Schumann's melodramatic afterlife / Ivan Raykoff -- Analytical approaches. Meter and expression in Robert Schumann's op. 90 / Harald Krebs ; Hypermetric dissonance in the later works of Robert Schumann / William Benjamin ; Associative harmony, tonal pairing, and middleground structure in Schumann's sonata expositions: the role of the mediant in the first movements of the Piano Quintet, Piano Quartet, and Rhenish Symphony / Peter H. Smith ; Schumann and the style hongrois / Julie Hedges Brown ; Intermediate states of key in Schumann / David Kopp -- Twentieth-century interpretations. Choreographing Schumann / Wayne Heisler Jr. ; Fictional lives of the Schumanns / David Ferris ; Deserted chambers of the mind (Schumann memories) / Laura Tunbridge ; Late styles / Scott Burnham. |
| Abstract | A provocative re-examination of a major romantic composer, the book provides fresh approaches to Schumann's oeuvre and its reception from the perspectives of literature, visual arts, cultural history, performance studies, dance, and film. Traditionally, Anglophone Schumann research has focused on biographical links between Schumann and his music, encouraging the assumption that Schumann was solitary, divorced from reality, and frequently associated with "untimeliness." These eighteen new essays argue from a multitude of perspectives that Schumann was in fact very much a man of his time, informed not only by music but also the culture and society around him. The book further reveals that the composer's reputation has been shaped significantly by, for example, changes in attitudes towards German romanticism and its history, and recent developments in musical scholarship and performance. The book takes into account cultural and social-institutional frameworks, engages with ongoing and new issues of reception and historiography, and offers fresh music-analytical insights. As a whole, the essays assemble a portrait of the artist that reflects the different ways in which Schumann has been understood over the past two hundred years. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2010012666 |
| ISBN | 9780195393866 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
| ISBN | 0195393864 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
| ISBN | (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
| ISBN | (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
| ISBN | 0195393856 |
| ISBN | 9780195393859 |