John MacAuslan is an independent scholar who holds a Ph.D. in music. He worked for many years in Her Majesty's Treasury, the National Gallery and as a Civil Service Commissioner, as well as working for the NGO War Child.
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Introduction 1. Chrysalis, 1827-34: Schumann's emergence as a literary composer 2. Notions of resonance and expression 3. A musical carnival, 1834-7: Carnaval, op. 9 4. Form, content and conception 5. Dream images, 1837: Fantasiestücke, op. 12 6. 'In possession of the secret', 1836-8: Schumann's stylistic evolution 7. New worlds, 1838: Kreisleriana, op. 16 8. Associations and expressiveness in Schumann's 'Hoffmann works' 9. Anti-matter, 1839-40: Nachtstücke, op. 23 10. 'The closed book': interpreting aesthetic entities Appendices: Appendix 1. Concordance of Novalis excerpts Appendix 2. Novalis and the Schumann of 1828 Appendix 3. Extracts from selected German original texts.
