Schumann's Eichendorff Liederkreis and the Genre of the Romantic Cycle

by David Ferris

This new study draws on analysis, literary criticism, and source studies to propose a new conception of the nineteenth-century romantic cycle. Rather than a unified whole, the cycle is seen as a fragmentary and open-ended form, which enables Schumann to express the romantic themes of transcendence and ineffability in musical terms.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195124472
• ISBN13: 9780195124477
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"