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The Cambridge Companion to the Lied

  • Editor: Brown, Jane K.
  • Editor: Parsons, James
How pleasing to see that the lied merits its own volume in this attractively presented series from CUP

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Contents

  • Notes on the contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • The Lied in context: a chronology
  • Names and dates mentioned in this Volume
  • Part I . Introducing a Genre: '
  • Introduction Why the Lied?' James Parsons:
  • 1. 'In the beginning was poetry' Jane Brown
  • Part II . The Birth and Early History of a Genre in the Age of Enlightenment:
  • 2. The eighteenth-century Lied James Parsons
  • 3. The Lieder of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven Amanda Glauert
  • Part III . The Nineteenth Century: Issues of Style and Development:
  • 4. The Lieder of Schubert Marie-Agnes Dittrich
  • 5. The early nineteenth-century song cycle Ruth O. Bingham
  • 6. Schumann: reconfiguring the Lied Jurgen Thym
  • 7. The Lied at mid-century James Deaville
  • 8. The Lieder of Liszt Rena Charnin Mueller
  • 9. The Lieder of Brahms Heather Platt
  • 10. Tradition and innovation: the Lieder of Hugo Wolf Susan Youens
  • 11. Song beyond song: instrumental transformations and adaptations of the Lied from Schubert to Mahler Christopher H. Gibbs
  • Part IV . Into the Twentieth Century:
  • 12. The Lieder of Mahler and Richard Strauss James L. Zychowicz
  • 13. The Lied in the modern age: to mid century James Parsons
  • Part V . Reception and Performance:
  • 14. The circulation of the Lied: the double life of an artwork and a commodity David Gramit
  • 15. The Lied in performance Graham Johnson
  • A guide to suggested further reading
  • Index.