Beschreibung:
Featuring 28 music examples this book takes an innovative approach to analyzing and interpreting nineteenth-century German song.
AcknowledgmentsNote on Online MaterialIntroductionPart One: A Theory of Narratology for the Lied1. Narratological Foundations: The Lied as Narrative Text2. Narrative Agency: Narrators, Characters, Focalizers3. Narrative Action: Events in Lyric Poetry and LiederPart Two: Schumann's Lieder through the Narratological Lens4. Narrating in Song: Analyses of Individual Lieder5. Schumann and the Ballad6. Multiplying Voices: Schumann's Songs for Two, Three, and Four Voices7. Schumann's CyclesPostludeGlossary of Narratological TermsBibliographyIndex of Schumann's SongsGeneral Index