Death in Winterreise Musico-Poetic Associations in Schubert's Song Cycle

Name: Death in Winterreise Musico-Poetic Associations in Schubert's Song Cycle
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ISBN: 9780253011008

ISBN-10: 0253011000

ISBN-13: 9780253011008

Edition: 2013

Authors: Lauri Suurpï¿½ï¿½, Lauri Suurpï¿½ï¿½

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Lauri Suurpää brings together two rigorous methodologies, Greimassian semiotics and Schenkerian analysis, to provide a unique perspective on the expressive power of Franz Schubert's song cycle. Focusing on the final songs, Suurpää deftly combines textual and tonal analysis to reveal death as a symbolic presence if not actual character in the musical narrative. Suurpää demonstrates the incongruities between semantic content and musical representation as it surfaces throughout the final songs. This close reading of the winter songs, coupled with creative applications of theory and a thorough history of the poetic and musical genesis of this work, brings new insights to the study of text-music…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 1/6/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.25" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgements


Note on the Translations of the Poems



Background



Genesis and Narrative of Winterreise



Winterreise in Context



Text-Music Relationships: Five Propositions



Musico-Poetic Associations: Principles of Analysis



Songs



The Emergence of Death as a Positive Option: "Der greise Kopf"



Death Contemplated: "Die Krï¿½he"



From Hope for the Past to Hope for the Future: "Letzte Hoffnung"



Reflecting Lost Hope: "Im Dorfe," "Der stï¿½rmische Morgen," and "Tï¿½uschung"



Choosing Death: "Der Wegweiser"



Death Eludes the Wanderer: "Das Wirtshaus"



Reflecting on the Inability to Find Death: "Mut," "Die Nebensonnen," and "Der Leiermann"



Cycle



The Song Cycle as a Genre: Some Recent Views



Winterreise as a Cycle



Epilogue: The Meaning of Death in Winterreise


Notes


References


Index