Rethinking Schubert by Lorraine Byrne Bodley (English) Paperback Book

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Rethinking Schubert offers a conspectus of issues in Schubert scholarship, a reappraisal of key debates, and an exploration of new avenues of research. It brings together twenty-two essays by some of today's most important Schubert scholars, which provide new insights into this composer, his music, his influence, and his legacy.

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In Rethinking Schubert, today's leading Schubertians offer fresh perspectives on the composer's importance and our perennial fascination with him. Subjecting recurring issues in historical, biographical and analytical research to renewed scrutiny, the twenty-two chapters yield new insights into Schubert, his music, his influence and his legacy, and broaden the interpretative context for the music of his final years. With closeattention to matters of style, harmonic and formal analysis, and text setting, the essays gathered here explore a significant portion of the composer's extensive output across a range of genres. The most readilyexplicable aspect of Schubert's appeal is undoubtedly our continuing engagement with the songs. Schubert will always be the first port of call for scholars interested in the relationship between music and the poetic text, and several essays in Rethinking Schubert offer welcome new inquiries into this subject. Yet perhaps the most striking feature of modern scholarship is the new depth of thought that attaches to the instrumental works. This music's highly protracted dissemination has combinedwith a habitual critical hostility to produce a reception history that is hardly congenial to musical analysis. Empowered by the new momentum behind theories of nineteenth-century harmony and form andrecently-published source materials, the sophisticated approaches to the instrumental music in Rethinking Schubert show decisively that it is no longer acceptable to posit Schubert's instrumental forms as flawed lyric alternatives to Beethoven.What this volume provides, then, is not only a fresh portrait of one of the most loved composers of the nineteenth century but also a conspectus of current Schubertian research. Whether perusing unknown repertoire orrefreshing canonical works, Rethinking Schubert reveals the extraordinary methodological variety that is now available to research, painting a portrait of Schubert that is vibrant, plural, trans-national, and complex.

Author Biography

Lorraine Byrne Bodley is Senior Lecturer and Director of Research at the Department of Music, Maynooth University. She is the first woman in Ireland to have conferred on her a D.Mus. in Musicology, a higher doctorate awarded for published work (NUI, 2012). She also holds a Ph.D. in Music and in German from University College Dublin (2000). Her numerous other awards include a Gerda-Henkel Foundation Scholarship (2014); two DAAD Senior AcademicsAwards (2010 and 2014); an IRCHSS Post-Doctoral Scholarship (2001-03) and the Goethe Prize of the English Goethe Society (2001). She has published 12 books including: A Community of the Imagination: Seoirse Bodley'sGoethe's Settings (Carysfort Press, 2013); Goethe and Zelter: Musical Dialogues (Ashgate, 2009); The Unknown Schubert (Ashgate, 2008); Proserpina: Goethe's Melodrama with Music by Carl Eberwein (Carysfort Press, 2007) and Schubert's Goethe Settings (2003). Forthcoming books include Schubert: A Musical Wayfarer (Yale University Press, 2018). Julian Horton is Professor of Music and Head of Department at Durham University. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and has taught at University College Dublin and King's College, London. He is the author of Bruckner's Symphonies: Analysis, Reception and Cultural Politics (Cambridge, 2004) and editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Symphony (2013). In 2012, he was recipient of the Westrup Prize; in 2014, he was elected President of the Society for Music Analysis.

Table of Contents

IntroductionLorraine Byrne Bodley and Julian Horton: 'Rethinking Schubert: Contexts and ControversiesPart I: Style1. Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen: Is there a Late Style in Schubert's Oeuvre?2. Walter Durr: Compositional Strategies of late Schubert 3. William Kinderman: Franz Schubert's 'New Style' and the Legacy of Beethoven4. Susan Wollenberg: From Song to Instrumental Style: Some Schubert 'Fingerprints'5. Brian Black: The Sensual as a Constructive Element in Schubert's Late WorksPart II: Instrumental Music6. Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl: The Myth of the 'Unfinished'?7. Xavier Hascher: Narrative Dislocations in the First Movement of Schubert's 'Unfinished' Symphony8. Cameron Gardner: Reappraising Schubert's 'Reliquie': Precedents, the 'Great' Symphony and Narrative9. Anne Hyland and Walburga Litschauer: 'Records of Inspiration': Schubert's drafts for the last three piano sonatas reappraised10. Julian Caskel: Musical Causality in Schubert's Piano Sonata D 959, first movement11. David Damschroder: Conspicuous 6-Phase Chords in the Closing Movement of Schubert's Piano Sonata in B flat Major, D 96012. Leon Plantinga: Schubert, Popular Music, and MelancholyPart III: Music and Text13. Michael Spitzer: Axial Lyric Space in Two Late Songs: 'Im Freien' and 'Der Winterabend' 14. Suzannah Clark: Schubert Through a Neo-Riemannian Lens.15. James Sobaskie: Contextual Processes in Schubert's Late Church Music16. Lisa Feurzeig: Elusive Intimacy in Schubert's Final Opera, Der Graf von Gleichen17. Deborah Stein: The Wanderer's Chromatic Journey in Schubert's Winterreise18. David Ferris: Dissociation and Declamation in Schubert's Heine Songs19. Richard Giarusso: 'The Messenger of a Faithful Heart': Reassessing the Role of 'Die Taubenpost' in Schubert's Schwanengesang20. Benjamin Binder: Disability, Self-Critique, and Failure in Schubert's 'Der Doppelganger' 21. Lorraine Byrne Bodley: Challenging the Context: Reception and Transformation in Schubert's 'Der Musensohn', D 764, Op. 92, no.122. Susan Youens: Mayrhofer's 'Der Einsame': A Gauntlet Thrown: Schubert's 'Einsamkeit', D 620, and Beethoven's An die ferne Geliebte'PostludeGraham Johnson

Review

"Deeply thoughtful and hugely challenging, insightful and inciteful, these essays throw brilliant prismatic light on Schubert's indispensable oeuvre. They untangle the thorny paradox of an individual style that furnished the pivot for a crucial juncture in music history." - Scott Messing, author of Schubert in the European Imagination and Marching to the Canon: The Life of Schubert's Marche militaire"This stirringly diverse collection of essays brings the recent surge of Schubert scholarship to its first full flood. With an international and intergenerational abundance of perspective, Rethinking Schubert encourages the sense that we are just now beginning to discern the impact and range of this miraculously multidimensional composer." - Scott Burnham, Princeton University"Inspired by the music of Schubert and the man himself, the contexts and riddling controversies promised in the title of this rich collection are engaged here in a range of brilliant rethinkings, from a brace of fresh theoretical constructs to the seasoned insights of time-honored Schubertians. A signal contribution among the busy competition." Richard Kramer, Author of Unfinished Music and Distant Cycles: Schubert and the Conceiving of Song

Long Description

In Rethinking Schubert, today's leading Schubertians offer fresh perspectives on the composer's importance and our perennial fascination with him. Subjecting recurring issues in historical, biographical and analytical research to renewed scrutiny, the twenty-two chapters yield new insights into Schubert, his music, his influence and his legacy, and broaden the interpretative context for the music of his final years. With close attention to matters of style, harmonic and formal analysis, and text setting, the essays gathered here explore a significant portion of the composer's extensive output across a range of genres. The most readily explicable aspect of Schubert's appeal is undoubtedly our continuing engagement with the songs. Schubert will always be the first port of call for scholars interested in the relationship between music and the poetic text, and several essays in Rethinking Schubert offerwelcome new inquiries into this subject. Yet perhaps the most striking feature of modern scholarship is the new depth of thought that attaches to the instrumental works. This music's highly protracted dissemination has combined with a habitual critical hostility to produce a reception history that ishardly congenial to musical analysis. Empowered by the new momentum behind theories of nineteenth-century harmony and form and recently-published source materials, the sophisticated approaches to the instrumental music in Rethinking Schubert show decisively that it is no longer acceptable to posit Schubert's instrumental forms as flawed lyric alternatives to Beethoven.What this volume provides, then, is not only a fresh portrait of one of the most loved composers of the nineteenth century but also a conspectus of current Schubertian research. Whether perusing unknown repertoire or refreshing canonical works, Rethinking Schubert reveals the extraordinary methodological variety that is now available to research, painting a portrait of Schubert that is vibrant, plural, trans-national, and complex.

Review Text

"Deeply thoughtful and hugely challenging, insightful and inciteful, these essays throw brilliant prismatic light on Schubert's indispensable oeuvre. They untangle the thorny paradox of an individual style that furnished the pivot for a crucial juncture in music history." - Scott Messing, author of Schubert in the European Imagination and Marching to the Canon: The Life of Schubert's Marche militaire"This stirringly diverse collection of essays brings the recent surge of Schubert scholarship to its first full flood. With an international and intergenerational abundance of perspective, Rethinking Schubert encourages the sense that we are just now beginning to discern the impact and range of this miraculously multidimensional composer." - Scott Burnham, Princeton University"Inspired by the music of Schubert and the man himself, the contexts and riddling controversies promised in the title of this rich collection are engaged here in a range of brilliant rethinkings, from a brace of fresh theoretical constructs to the seasoned insights of time-honored Schubertians. A signal contribution among the busy competition." Richard Kramer, Author of Unfinished Music and Distant Cycles: Schubert and the Conceiving of Song

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Deeply thoughtful and hugely challenging, insightful and inciteful, these essays throw brilliant prismatic light on Schubert's indispensable oeuvre. They untangle the thorny paradox of an individual style that furnished the pivot for a crucial juncture in music history." - Scott Messing, author of Schubert in the European Imagination and Marching to the Canon: The Life of Schubert's Marche militaire

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Introduction Lorraine Byrne Bodley and Julian Horton: 'Rethinking Schubert: Contexts and Controversies Part I: Style 1. Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen: Is there a Late Style in Schubert's Oeuvre? 2. Walter Drr: Compositional Strategies of late Schubert 3. William Kinderman: Franz Schubert's 'New Style' and the Legacy of Beethoven 4. Susan Wollenberg: From Song to Instrumental Style: Some Schubert 'Fingerprints' 5. Brian Black: The Sensual as a Constructive Element in Schubert's Late Works Part II: Instrumental Music 6. Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl: The Myth of the 'Unfinished'? 7. Xavier Hascher: Narrative Dislocations in the First Movement of Schubert's 'Unfinished' Symphony 8. Cameron Gardner: Reappraising Schubert's 'Reliquie': Precedents, the 'Great' Symphony and Narrative 9. Anne Hyland and Walburga Litschauer: 'Records of Inspiration': Schubert's drafts for the last three piano sonatas reappraised 10. Julian Caskel: Musical Causality in Schubert's Piano Sonata D 959, first movement 11. David Damschroder: Conspicuous 6-Phase Chords in the Closing Movement of Schubert's Piano Sonata in B flat Major, D 960 12. Leon Plantinga: Schubert, Popular Music, and Melancholy Part III: Music and Text 13. Michael Spitzer: Axial Lyric Space in Two Late Songs: 'Im Freien' and 'Der Winterabend' 14. Suzannah Clark: Schubert Through a Neo-Riemannian Lens. 15. James Sobaskie: Contextual Processes in Schubert's Late Church Music 16. Lisa Feurzeig: Elusive Intimacy in Schubert's Final Opera, Der Graf von Gleichen 17. Deborah Stein: The Wanderer's Chromatic Journey in Schubert's Winterreise 18. David Ferris: Dissociation and Declamation in Schubert's Heine Songs 19. Richard Giarusso: 'The Messenger of a Faithful Heart': Reassessing the Role of 'Die Taubenpost' in Schubert's Schwanengesang 20. Benjamin Binder: Disability, Self-Critique, and Failure in Schubert's 'Der Doppelgnger' 21. Lorraine Byrne Bodley: Challenging the Context: Reception and Transformation in Schubert's 'Der Musensohn', D 764, Op. 92, no.1 22. Susan Youens: Mayrhofer's 'Der Einsame': A Gauntlet Thrown: Schubert's 'Einsamkeit', D 620, and Beethoven's An die ferne Geliebte' Postlude Graham Johnson

Details ISBN0190874139 Pages 552 Language English ISBN-10 0190874139 ISBN-13 9780190874131 Format Paperback Year 2018 Imprint Oxford University Press Inc Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Edited by Julian Horton DEWEY 780.92 Illustrations 175 musical examples; 1 photo Position Professor of Music Affiliation Professor of Music, Durham University Audience Professional and Scholarly Author Lorraine Byrne Bodley Publisher Oxford University Press Inc Publication Date 2018-04-05 UK Release Date 2018-04-05 AU Release Date 2018-04-05 NZ Release Date 2018-04-05 US Release Date 2018-04-05 We've got this

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