German Song and Its Poetry 1740 - 1900

Contents

• 1. The Beginnings: 1740-80
• 2. 'Im Volkston'
• 3. Switzerland and Austria
• 4. Song-Texts in the Latter Part of the Eighteenth Century
• 5. Composers and Performers
• 6. Simplicity as an ideal
• 7. The New Adventurousness in the Late Eighteenth Century
• 8. The Eighteenth Century - A Summing Up
• 9. From the turn of the Century to Schumann, Mendelssohn and Franz
• 10. The Development Towards Great Complexity
• 11. Theories of Song and the Ideal of 'Hausmusik'
• 12. The Importance of Folksong
• 13. A General Assessment
• 14. Paths into the Twentieth Century