Schumann's Eichendorff Liederkreis and the Genre of the Romantic Cycle - David Ferris

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Schumann's Eichendorff Liederkreis and the Genre of the Romantic Cycle

By: David Ferris

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Hardcover | 30 November 2000

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Using Schumann''s Eichendorff Liederkreis as the primary example, this book sheds new light on the structure of nineteenth century song cycles and on the Schumann''s particular response to the problem of musical coherence in large scale works. Drawing on analysis, literary criticism, and source studies, this book argues for a new conception of the nineteenth-century song cycle. Rather than a unified whole, the cycle is seen as a fragmentary and open-ended form that enables Schumann to express the romantic themes of transcendence and ineffability in musical terms. THe book begins with a general discussion of the cycle as a genre. The heart of the book is a series of closely argued analyses of five of the Eichendorff songs, with particular attention on the relationship between text and music. Ferris concludes by setting the Liederkreis within the context of Schumann''s other 1840 song cycles.

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"...ambitious and often provocative study of Schumann's great Eichendorff cycle."--Current Musicology "Ferris's book is a welcome addition to Oxford's 'Schumann Series.' It is refreshing to read a study of the Romantic song cycle whose primary focus is not Dichterliebe....Most of Ferris's musical analysis....grows out of equally poetic analysis. Just as he is able to probe beneath the apparent simplicity of the poetry, so does he locate ambiguities and complexities in Schumann's deceptively simple musical settings."--Music Theory Online "...ambitious and often provocative study of Schumann's great Eichendorff cycle."--Current Musicology "Ferris's book is a welcome addition to Oxford's 'Schumann Series.' It is refreshing to read a study of the Romantic song cycle whose primary focus is not Dichterliebe....Most of Ferris's musical analysis....grows out of equally poetic analysis. Just as he is able to probe beneath the apparent simplicity of the poetry, so does he locate ambiguities and complexities in Schumann's deceptively simple musical settings." --Music Theory Online

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Preface	p. vii
The Genre of the Cycle	p. 1
Introduction	p. 3
Analyzing Dichterliebe	p. 25
Schumann's Eichendorff Songs	p. 89
Poem and Song	p. 91
Weak Openings	p. 121
Recompositional Pairings	p. 141
From Songs into Cycles	p. 169
Schumann's Process of Composing a Cycle	p. 171
The Song Cycle as a Literary Work	p. 195
Notes	p. 229
Works Cited	p. 259
Index	p. 265
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