James Parsons (ed.)The Cambridge Companion to the Lied
Herausgeber: Cross, Jonathan; Parsons, James
JAMES PARSONS is Associate Professor of Music History at Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri. He is the author of numerous essays on German song, including the article on the eighteenth-century Lied for the second edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. His article "''Deine Zauber binden wieder'': Beethoven, Schiller, and the Joyous Reconciliation of Opposites," recently was published in Beethoven Forum, (2002) 9/1, 1-53. Other essays have appeared in The Journal of the American Musicological Society and Music Analysis.
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 Jürgen 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.
