Poetry Into Song: Performance and Analysis of Lieder

by Deborah Stein and Robert Spillman

Book Overview

Focusing on the music of the great song composers--Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Wolf, and Strauss--Poetry Into Song offers a systematic introduction to the performance and analysis of Lieder . Part I, "The Language of Poetry," provides chapters on the themes and imagery of German Romanticism and the methods of analysis for German Romantic poetry. Part II, "The Language of the Performer," deals with issues of concern to performers: texture, temporality,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199754306
• ISBN13: 9780199754304
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"