Schubert's Theater of Song: A Listener's Guide [With CD (Audio)]

by Mark Ringer and Hal Leonard Corporation

Book Overview

Ringer sheds new perspectives on Schubert's songs, focusing on their incomparable dramatic power, which often exceeds that of many a full-fledged opera. But Schubert's "stage" was not to be the public theaters of the repressive Metternich regime in Vienna, but the far less censorable "theater of the mind." Schubert's theater of song would spring to life in intimate social gatherings of like-minded friends, wherever a singer and a fortepiano were available...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1574671766
• ISBN13: 9781574671766
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Amadeus
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"