Beate Perrey (ed.)

Broschiertes Buch

The Cambridge Companion to Schumann

Beschreibung

An accessible introduction to Schumann: his time, temperament, style and his Å uvre. Explores the cultural context, musical and poetic fabric, sources of inspiration of key works from his lieder and piano pieces to chamber, orchestral and dramatic works. Contains tables and illustrations, a glossary and advice on further reading.

Autor

Beate Perrey is currently Senior Lecturer in Critical Musicology and Analysis at the University of Liverpool, and was previously Visiting Professor at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris and Research Fellow at Trinity and Christ's College, Cambridge. Together with Gillian Beer and Malcolm Bowie, she co-directs the long-term research project New Languages for Criticism: Cross-currents and Resistances at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities of the University of Cambridge. She is the author of Schumann's 'Dichterliebe' and Early Romantic Poetics: Fragmentation of Desire (Cambridge, 2002), and writes about nineteenth and twentieth century music and its interfaces with different forms of cultural expression, and the verbal and visual arts.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Companions to Music
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 660g
• ISBN-13: 9780521789509
• ISBN-10: 0521789508
• Artikelnr.: 20808158

Rezensionen

'Her own chapter, Schumann's Lives and Afterlives: An Introduction', is ... a good overview'. London Review of Books