Rethinking Schubert

by Lorraine Byrne Bodley (Editor), Julian Horton (Editor)

Overview

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 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 combined with 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 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 contemporary portrait of Schubert that is vibrant, plural, trans-national and complex.

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ISBN-13:	9780190606831
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	08/05/2016
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Pages:	576
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About the Author

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 Academics Awards (2010 and 2014); an IRCHSS Post-Doctoral Scholarship (2001-03) and the Goethe Prize of the English Goethe Society (2001). She has published 11 books including: A Community of the Imagination: Seóirse Bodley's Goethe'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 publications include: Schubert's Late Music in History and Theory (Cambridge University Press, 2015), co-edited with Julian Horon. She is currently writing a new biography on Schubert commissioned by Yale University Press. In 2014 she was elected to the Royal Irish Academy. 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

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 Dürr: 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 Doppelgänger' 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.

Editorial Reviews

"This is indeed an achievement worth paying homage to and a fitting close to a valuable contribution to Schubert studies." —Notes

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