The Cambridge Companion to the Lied
- Editor: Brown, Jane K.
- Editor: Parsons, James
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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.