Description

This collection of essays aims to broaden and update scholarly approaches to Schumann, by considering his works and their reception in the context of various cultural and socio-institutional frameworks, from mid-nineteenth-century politics, through Nazi Germany, to late twentieth-century popular culture.

CONTENTS

Preface,
1. The Political Sphere
2. Robert Schumann and the Culture of German Nationhood,
Celia Applegate
3. Organizing German Musical Life at Mid-Century: Brendel, Schumann and the Leipzig Tonkunstlerversammlungen/Tonkunstlerverein,
James Deaville
4. The Cry of the Schuhu: Dissonant History in a Late Schumann Song,
Susan Youens
5. Segregating Sound: Robert Schumann in the Third Reich,
Lily M. Hirsch
II. Popular Influences
5. At the Interstice between ‘Popular’ and ‘Classical’: Schumann’s Poems of
Queen Mary Stuart and European Sentimentality at Mid-Century,
Jon Finson
6. Who was Mignon, what was she? Popular Catholicism, Fairytale Archetype,
and Puer Senex in the Reception of Schumann’s Requiem fur Mignon,
Roe-Min Kok
7. Entzuckt: Schumann, Raphael, Faust,
Nicholas Marston
8. Schumann and Agencies of Improvisation,
Dana Gooley
9. Schumann’s Melodramatic Afterlife,
Ivan Raykoff
III. Analytical Approaches
10. Meter and Expression in Robert Schumann’s Op. 90,
Harald Krebs
11. Hypermetric Dissonance in the Later Works of Robert Schumann,
William Benjamin
12. Associative Harmony, Tonal Pairing, and Middleground Structure in Schumann’s Sonata Expositions: The Role of the Mediant in the First Movements of the Piano Quintet, Piano Quartet, and ‘Rhenish’ Symphony,
Peter Smith
13. Schumann and the style hongrois,
Julie Hedge Brown
14. Intermediate States of Key in Schumann,
David Kopp
IV. 20th-Century Reception
15. Choreographing Schumann,
Wayne Heisler
16. The Fictional Lives of the Schumanns,
David Ferris
17. Deserted Chambers of the Mind (Schumann Memories),
Laura Tunbridge
18. Late Styles,
Scott Burnham