Distant Cycles: Schubert and the Conceiving of Song

by Richard Kramer

Book Overview

Franz Schubert's song cycles Schone Mullerin and Winterreise are cornerstones of the genre. But as Richard Kramer argues in this book, Schubert envisioned many other songs as components of cyclical arrangements that were never published as such. By carefully studying Schubert's original manuscripts, Kramer recovers some of these "distant cycles" and accounts for idiosyncrasies in the songs which other analyses have failed to explain...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226452352
• ISBN13: 9780226452357
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 9.4"