The Cambridge Companion to the Lied (Cambridge Companions to Music) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 052180471X ISBN 13: 9780521804714

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2004

Synopsis

Several generations before Schubert, the Lied emerged as domestic entertainment destined to move beyond the home to the symphony hall. This introductory chronicle of this fascinating genre analyzes the Lied in its musical, literary, and cultural contexts--with chapters devoted to focal composers; influence of the Lied on other musical genres; use as a musical commodity and issues of performance. The volume includes a chronology and a comprehensive bibliography.

About this title

Book Description:

Beginning several generations before Schubert, the Lied first appears as domestic entertainment and was to move beyond the home to the symphony hall. This is the first introductory chronicle of this fascinating genre and places the Lied in its full context--at once musical, literary, and cultural--with chapters devoted to focal composers, influence of the Lied on other musical genres, use as a musical commodity, and issues of performance. The volume is framed by a chronology and also contains a comprehensive bibliography.

About the Author:

James Parsons is Associate Professor of Music History at Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri. He is the author of numerous essays on German song, including the article on the eighteenth-century Lied for the second edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. His article ''Deine Zauber binden wieder': Beethoven, Schiller, and the Joyous Reconciliation of Opposites', recently was published in Beethoven Forum, (2002) 9/1, 1-53. Other essays have appeared in The Journal of the American Musicological Society and Music Analysis.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 052180471X
• ISBN 13: 9780521804714
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 438
• Editor: Parsons James