The Cambridge Companion to Schumann

The Cambridge Companion to Schumann
Author: Beate Perrey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2007-06-28
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1139826379

This Companion is an accessible introduction to Schumann: his time, his temperament, his style and his œuvre. An international team of scholars explores the cultural context, musical and poetic fabric, sources of inspiration and interpretative reach of key works from the Schumann repertoire ranging from his famous lieder and piano pieces to chamber, orchestral and dramatic works. Additional chapters address Schumann's presence in nineteenth- and twentieth-century composition and the fascinating reception history of his late works. Tables, illustrations, a detailed chronology and advice on further reading make it an ideally informative handbook for both the Schumann connoisseur and the music lover. An excellent textbook for the university student of courses on key composers of nineteenth-century Western Classical music, it is an invaluable guide for all who are interested in the thought, aesthetics and affective power of one of the most intriguing figures of a culturally rich and formative period.

The Cambridge Companion to the Lied

The Cambridge Companion to the Lied
Author: James Parsons
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 446
Release: 2004-07
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780521804714

Beginning several generations before Schubert, the Lied first appears as domestic entertainment. In the century that follows it becomes one of the primary modes of music-making. By the time German song comes to its presumed conclusion with Richard Strauss's 1948 Vier letzte Lieder, this rich repertoire has moved beyond the home and keyboard accompaniment to the symphony hall. This is a 2004 introductory chronicle of this fascinating genre. In essays by eminent scholars, this Companion places the Lied in its full context - at once musical, literary, and cultural - with chapters devoted to focal composers as well as important issues, such as the way in which the Lied influenced other musical genres, its use as a musical commodity, and issues of performance. The volume is framed by a detailed chronology of German music and poetry from the late 1730s to the present and also contains a comprehensive bibliography.

Clara Schumann Studies

Clara Schumann Studies
Author: Joe Davies
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2021-12-02
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1108489842

Develops a holistic and gender-aware understanding of Clara Schumann as pianist, composer and teacher in nineteenth-century Germany.

The Cambridge Companion to Brahms

The Cambridge Companion to Brahms
Author: Michael Musgrave
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1999-05-27
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1139825305

This Companion gives a comprehensive view of the German composer Johannes Brahms (1833–97). Twelve specially-commissioned chapters by leading scholars and musicians provide systematic coverage of the composer's life and works. Their essays represent recent research and reflect changing attitudes towards a composer whose public image has long been out-of-date. The first part of the book contains three chapters on Brahms's early life in Hamburg and on the middle and later years in Vienna. The central section considers the musical works in all genres, while the last part of the book offers personal accounts and responses from a conductor (Roger Norrington), a composer (Hugh Wood), and an editor of Brahms's original manuscripts (Robert Pascall). The volume as a whole is an important addition to Brahms scholarship and provides indispensable information for all students and enthusiasts of Brahms's music.

The Cambridge Companion to Chopin

The Cambridge Companion to Chopin
Author: Jim Samson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 1994-12-08
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1139824996

The Cambridge Companion to Chopin provides the enquiring music-lover with helpful insights into a musical style which recognises no contradiction between the accessible and the sophisticated, the popular and the significant. Twelve essays by leading Chopin scholars make up three parts. Part 1 discusses the sources of Chopin's style in the music of his predecessors and the social history of the period. Part 2 profiles the mature music, and Part 3 considers the afterlife of the music - its reception, its criticism and its compositional influence in the works of subsequent composers.

The Cambridge Companion to Music and Romanticism

The Cambridge Companion to Music and Romanticism
Author: Benedict Taylor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2021-08-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108475434

A stimulating new approach to understanding the relationship between music and culture in the long nineteenth century.

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Religion

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Religion
Author: Hannibal Hamlin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2019-03-28
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1107172594

A wide-ranging yet accessible investigation into the importance of religion in Shakespeare's works, from a team of eminent international scholars.

The Cambridge Companion to Schubert

The Cambridge Companion to Schubert
Author: Christopher H. Gibbs
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 1997-04-17
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1139825321

This Companion to Schubert examines the career, music, and reception of one of the most popular yet misunderstood and elusive composers. Sixteen chapters by leading Schubert scholars make up three parts. The first seeks to situate the social, cultural, and musical climate in which Schubert lived and worked, the second surveys the scope of his musical achievement, and the third charts the course of his reception from the perceptions of his contemporaries to the assessments of posterity. Myths and legends about Schubert the man are explored critically and the full range of his musical accomplishment is examined.

The Song Cycle

The Song Cycle
Author: Laura Tunbridge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2010
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0521896444

Investigates how other types of music have influenced the scope of the song cycle, from operas and symphonies to popular song --