Mendelssohn

Contents: Introduction: The long Mendelssohn Renaissance, Benedict Taylor. Aesthetics: Vorwort and Mendelssohn und die musikalische Gattungstradition, Carl Dahlhaus; The aesthetics of assimilation and affirmation: reconstructing the career of Felix Mendelssohn, Leon Botstein; Felix culpa: Goethe and the image of Mendelssohn, Lawrence Kramer; Marxian programmatic music: a stage in Mendelssohnâs musical development, Judith Silber Ballan; The problem of the lyric persona in Mendelssohnâs songs, Douglas Seaton; Mendelssohnâs Babel: romanticism and the poetics of translation, James Garratt. Music and Source-Studies: Zur Kompositionsart Mendelssohn: Thesen am Beispiel der Streichquartette, Friedhelm Krummacher; Cyclic form and tonal relationships in Mendelssohnâs âScottishâ symphony, Rey M. Longyear; Mendelssohn the progressive, Gregory Vitercik; Mendelssohn: songs without words, William Rothstein; 'Aber eben dieser Zweifelâ: A new look at Mendelssohnâs âItalianâ symphony, John Michael Cooper; The flight of Icarus: Mendelssohnâs Lobgesang, Mark Evan Bonds. Context and Culture: Mendelssohnâs Ossianic manner, with a new source: On Lenaâs gloomy heath, R. Larry Todd; Musical historicism and the transcendental foundation of community: Mendelssohnâs Lobgesang and the âChristian Germanâ cultural politics of Frederick William IV, John Edward Toews; Listening to Reason: Culture, Subjectivity, and Nineteenth-Century Music, Michael P. Steinberg; Mendelssohnâs âScottishâ symphony and the music of German memory, Peter Mercer-Taylor; Fingalâs Cave and Ossianâs dream: music, image, and phantasmagoric audition, Thomas Grey. Biography and Reception: 1848, anti-semitism, and the Mendelssohn reception, Donald M. Mintz; The hidden pathways of assimilation: Mendelssohnâs first visit to London, Paul Jourdan; Creative writing: the [self-] identification of Mendelssohn as Jew, Jeffrey S. Sposato; Just how âScottishâ is the âScottishâ symphony? Thoughts on form and poetic content in Mendelssohnâs Opus 56, Thomas Schmidt-Beste; The composer as other: gender and race in the biography of Felix Mendelssohn, Marian Wilson Kimber. Index.