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Drama in the music of Franz Schubert / edited by Joe Davies and James William Sobaskie

Published
Woodbridge, Suffolk : The Boydell Press, 2019.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxix, 348 pages) : music
Additional Creators
Davies, Joe (Musicologist) and Sobaskie, James William, 1956-
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Contents
List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction: Internal Dramas; Part I: Stage and Scared Works; 1. Opera that Vanished: Goethe, Schubert, and Claudine von Villa Bella; 2. Pioneering German Musical Drama: Sung and Spoken Word in Schubert's Fierabras; 3. The Dramatic Monologue of Schubert's Mass in A♭ Major; Part II: Lieder; 4. Schubert's Dramatic Lieder: Rehabilitating 'Adelwold und Emma', D. 211; 5. Gretchen abbandonata: The Lied as Aria; 6. The Dramatic Strategy Within Two of Schubert's Serenades; 7. 'Durch Nacht und Wind': Tempesta as a Topic in Schubert's Lieder and 8. Reentering Mozart's Hell: Schubert's 'Gruppe aus dem Tartarus', D. 583; Part III: Instrumental Music; 9. 'Zumsteeg Ballads without Words': Inter-Generic Dialogue and Schubert's Projection of Drama through Form; 10. Lyricism and the Dramatic Unity of Schubert's Instrumental Music: The Impromptu in C Minor, D. 899/1; 11. Music as Poetry: An Analysis of the First Movement of Schubert's Piano Sonata in A Major, D. 959; 12. Virtual Protagonist and Musical Narration in the Slow Movements of Schubert's Piano Sonatas D. 958 and D. 960; 13. Stylistic Disjuncture as a Source of Drama in Schubert's Late Instrumental WorksSelect Bibliography; Index.
Summary
It is commonly assumed that Franz Schubert (1797-1828), best known for the lyricism of his songs, symphonies, and chamber music, lacked comparable talent for drama. Challenging this view, Drama in the Music of Franz Schubert provides a timely re-evaluation of Schubert's operatic works, while demonstrating previously unsuspected locations of dramatic innovation in his vocal and instrumental music. The volume draws on a range of critical approaches and techniques, including semiotics, topic theory, literary criticism, narratology, and Schenkerian analysis, to situate Schubertian drama within its musical and cultural-historical context. In so doing, the study broadens the boundaries of what might be considered 'dramatic' within the composer's music and offers new perspectives for its analysis and interpretation. Drama in the Music of Franz Schubert will be of interest to musicologists, music theorists, composers, and performers, as well as scholars working in cultural studies, theatre, and aesthetics.
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ISBN
9781787444393 (electronic bk.)
1787444392 (electronic bk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-340) and index.
Endowment Note
James F. Holly Libraries Endowment
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