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Hugo Wolf

The Vocal Music

By: Susan Youens

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A groundbreaking look at one of the great song composers of the late Romantic period In the virtual cottage industry of works on fin de siècle Vienna, Hugo Wolf (1860–1903) has been somewhat neglected, perhaps because he was the master of a small genre—the late Romantic lied—and never truly made his mark in the larger forms that command greater public attention. But in the realm of song, he is among the greatest inheritors of Schubert and Schumann, one who was both a traditionalist and a modernist. When the Viennese critic Eduard Hanslick disapprovingly dubbed Wolf “the Richard Wagner of the lied,” he was paying oblique homage to Wolf’s genius as a song composer in the most modern manner. In this book, Susan Youens examines five aspects of Wolf’s compositional art, each exemplifying a different synthesis of traditionalism and modernity and spanning his entire, tragically brief creative life, from his first efforts to his lapse into insanity in 1897. She discusses Wolf’s youthful imitations of Schumann, his genius for comic songs of a kind unlike any of his predecessors, his part in the ballad revival of the late nineteenth century, Wolf in relation to his contemporaries, and his pursuit of operatic fame. Youens looks as closely at the poetic texts as she does the music and includes numerous previously unpublished sketches and fragments, examples from songs now long out of print and difficult to obtain, and citations from Wolf’s vivid letters and other sources of the period.

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Princeton University Press

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0691265011

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Schubert's Late Lieder

Beyond the Song-Cycles

By: Susan Youens

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Schubert's Late Lieder

Beyond the Song-Cycles

By: Susan Youens

A study of songs composed by Schubert in the final six years of his life.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521028752

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Schubert, Müller, and Die Schöne Müllerin

By: Susan Youens

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Schubert, Müller, and Die Schöne Müllerin

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The collaboration of Schubert and the poet Wilhelm Müller produced some of the best loved of nineteenth-century lieder - in particular the song cycle Die schöne Müllerin. Professor Youens shows us how this archetypal tale of love and rejection, which has its origins in medieval romance, Minnesong and popular German legend, is reflected in the poet's own experience, the realms of art and life intertwining. Professor Youens considers other poets' explorations of the theme of a miller maid and her suitors, and looks at other musical settings of Müller's mill poems. But above all she examines Müller's permutation of the literary legends as an exploration of erotic obsession, delusion, frenzy, disillusionment and death and the way in which Schubert crucially altered Müller's vision when the poetic cycle became a musical text.

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Cambridge University Press

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052156364X

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Hugo Wolf and his Mörike Songs

By: Susan Youens

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Hugo Wolf and his Mörike Songs

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Viennese composer Hugo Wolf produced one of the most important song collections of the nineteenth century when he set to music fifty-three poems by the great German poet Eduard Mörike. Susan Youens reappraises this singular collaboration to shed new light on the sophisticated interplay between poetry and music in the songs. Wolf is customarily described as 'the Poet's Composer', someone who revered poetry and served it faithfully in his music. Yet, as Youens reveals, this cliché overlooks the rich terrain in which his songs are often at cross purposes with his chosen poetry. Although Wolf did much to draw the world's attention to the neglected Swabian poet, his musical interpretation of the poetry was also influenced by his own life, psychology and experiences. This book examines selected Mörike songs in detail, demonstrating that the poems and music each have their own distinctive stories which at times intersect but also diverge.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139427954

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Retracing a Winter's Journey

Franz Schubert's "Winterreise"

By: Susan Youens

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Retracing a Winter's Journey

Franz Schubert's "Winterreise"

By: Susan Youens

I like these songs better than all the rest, and someday you will too," Franz Schubert told the friends who were the first to hear his song cycle Winterreise. These lieder have always found admiring audiences, but the poetry he chose to set them to has been widely regarded as weak and trivial. Susan Youens looks not only at Schubert's music but at the poetry, drawn from the works of Wilhelm Müller, who once wrote in his diary, "perhaps there is a kindred spirit somewhere who will hear the tunes behind the words and give them back to me!" Youens maintains that Müller, in depicting the wanderings of the alienated lover, produced poetry that was simple but not simple-minded, poetry that embraced simplicity as part of its meaning. In her view, Müller used the ruder folk forms to give his verse greater immediacy, to convey more powerfully the wanderer's complex inner state. Youens addresses many different aspects of Winterreise: the cultural milieu to which it belonged, the genesis of both the poetry and the music, Schubert's transformation of poetic cycle into music, the philosophical dimension of the work, and its musical structure.

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Cornell University Press

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0801468272

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Women and the Nineteenth-Century Lied

By: Aisling Kenny,Susan Wollenberg

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Women and the Nineteenth-Century Lied

By: Aisling Kenny,Susan Wollenberg

This book bridges a gap in existing scholarship by foregrounding the contribution of women to the nineteenth-century Lied. Building on the pioneering work of scholars in recent years, it consolidates recent research on women’s achievements in the genre, and develops an alternative narrative of the Lied that embraces an understanding of the contributions of women, and of the contexts of their engagement with German song and related genres. Lieder composers including Fanny Hensel, Clara Schumann, Pauline Viardot-Garcia and Josephine Lang are considered with a stimulating variety of analytical approaches. In addition to the focus on composers associated with history and theory of the Lied, the various chapters explore the cultural and sociological background to the Lied’s musical environment, as well as engaging with gender studies and discussing performance and pedagogical contexts. The range of subject matter reflects the interdisciplinary nature of current research in the field, and the energy it generates among scholars and performers. Women and the Nineteenth-Century Lied aims to widen readers’ perception of the genre and help promote awareness of women’s contribution to nineteenth-century musical life through critical appraisal of the cultural context of the Lied, encouraging acquaintance with the voices of women composers, and the variety of their contributions to the repertoire.

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Routledge

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1134773870

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Learning to Teach in the Secondary School

By: Susan Capel,Marilyn Leask

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Learning to Teach in the Secondary School

By: Susan Capel,Marilyn Leask

Designed to support student secondary school teachers through the school-based element of their initial training courses, this new edition of a best-selling text includes reworked tasks for individual use and revised sections on growth and development, moral development and values, special educational needs and assessment. There is also a new chapter on ICT. Units include: *the student teacher's role *planning lessons and schemes of work *motivating pupils *teaching and learning styles *assessment and recording *working as part of a team. With general updating throughout in the light of developments in legislation, the book will continue to be the standard for secondary teachers in training.

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Routledge

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1134511523

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D.H. Lawrence, Music and Modernism

By: Susan Reid

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D.H. Lawrence, Music and Modernism

By: Susan Reid

This first book-length study of D. H. Lawrence’s lifelong engagement with music surveys his extensive musical interests and how these permeate his writing, while also situating Lawrence within a growing body of work on music and modernism. A twin focus considers the music that shaped Lawrence’s novels and poetry, as well as contemporary developments in music that parallel his quest for new forms of expression. Comparisons are made with the music of Debussy, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Wagner, and British composers, including Bax, Holst and Vaughan Williams, and with the musical writings of Forster, Hardy, Hueffer (Ford), Nietzsche and Pound. Above all, by exploring Lawrence and music in historical context, this study aims to open up new areas for study and a place for Lawrence within the field of music and modernism.

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Springer

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303004999X

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Schubert's Fingerprints: Studies in the Instrumental Works

By: Susan Wollenberg

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Schubert's Fingerprints: Studies in the Instrumental Works

By: Susan Wollenberg

As Robert Schumann put it, 'Only few works are as clearly stamped with their author's imprint as his'. This book explores Schubert's stylistic traits in a series of chapters each discussing an individual 'fingerprint' with case studies drawn principally from the piano and chamber music. The notion of Schubert's compositional fingerprints has not previously formed the subject of a book-length study. The features of his personal style considered here include musical manifestations of Schubert's 'violent nature', the characteristics of his thematic material, and the signs of his 'classicizing' manner. In the process of the discussion, attention is given to matters of form, texture, harmony and gesture in a range of works, with regard to the various 'fingerprints' identified in each chapter. The repertoire discussed includes the late string quartets, the String Quintet, the E flat Piano Trio and the last three piano sonatas. Developing ideas which she first proposed in a series of journal articles and contributions to symposia on Schubert, Professor Wollenberg takes into account recent literature by other scholars and draws together her own researches to present her view of Schubert's 'compositional personality'. Schubert emerges as someone exerting intellectual control over his musical material and imbuing it with poetic resonance.

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Routledge

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1317059166

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Retracing a Winter's Journey

Franz Schubert's "Winterreise"

By: Susan Youens

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Retracing a Winter's Journey

Franz Schubert's "Winterreise"

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Cornell University Press

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0801468272

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Starting to Teach in the Secondary School

A Companion for the Newly Qualified Teacher

By: Susan Anne Capel,Marilyn Leask

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Starting to Teach in the Secondary School

A Companion for the Newly Qualified Teacher

By: Susan Anne Capel,Marilyn Leask

This completely updated edition tackles all the issues which new teachers find difficult.

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Psychology Press

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0415338174

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Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 2019

By: Susan Morris

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Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 2019

By: Susan Morris

Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage is the only up-to-date printed reference guide to the United Kingdom's titled families: the hereditary peers, life peers and peeresses, and baronets, and their descendants who form the fascinating tapestry of the peerage. This is the first ebook edition of Debrett's Peerage &Baronetage, and it also contains information relating to:The Royal FamilyCoats of ArmsPrincipal British Commonwealth OrdersCourtesy titlesForms of addressExtinct, dormant, abeyant and disclaimed titles.Special features for this anniversary edition include:The Roll of Honour, 1920: a list of the 3,150 people whose names appeared in the volume who were killed in action or died as a result of injuries sustained during the First World War.A number of specially commissioned articles, including an account of John Debrett's life and the early history of Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, a history of the royal dukedoms, and an in-depth feature exploring the implications of modern legislation and mores on the ancient traditions of succession.

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eBook Partnership

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1999767055

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9781999767051

Music Education in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

By: Susan Forscher Weiss,Russell E. Murray, Jr.,Cynthia J. Cyrus

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Music Education in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

By: Susan Forscher Weiss,Russell E. Murray, Jr.,Cynthia J. Cyrus

What were the methods and educational philosophies of music teachers in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance? What did students study? What were the motivations of teacher and student? Contributors to this volume address these topics and other -- including gender, social status, and the role of the Church -- to better understand the identities of music teachers and students from 650 to 1650 in Western Europe. This volume provides an expansive view of the beginnings of music pedagogy, and shows how the act of learning was embedded in the broader context of the early Western art music tradition.

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Indiana University Press

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0253004551

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9780253004550

Schubert's Poets and the Making of Lieder

By: Susan Youens

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Schubert's Poets and the Making of Lieder

By: Susan Youens

A re-examination of the life and work of four poets and Schubert's settings of their verse.

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Cambridge University Press

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052177862X

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Schubert, Müller, and Die Schöne Müllerin

By: Susan Youens

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Schubert, Müller, and Die Schöne Müllerin

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Schubert's Late Lieder

Beyond the Song-Cycles

By: Susan Youens

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Schubert's Late Lieder

Beyond the Song-Cycles

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A study of songs composed by Schubert in the final six years of his life.

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Hugo Wolf

The Vocal Music

By: Susan Youens

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Hugo Wolf

The Vocal Music

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Princeton University Press

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Schubert's Winterreise

A Winter Journey in Poetry, Image, & Song

By: Franz Schubert,Wilhelm Müller

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Schubert's Winterreise

A Winter Journey in Poetry, Image, & Song

By: Franz Schubert,Wilhelm Müller

This book/CD package guides readers and listeners on a journey through Franz Schubert's Winterreise song cycle, in which the composer set the poetry of Wilhelm Muller to music. The complete text of the 24 poems is presented in both German and English, with 116 b&w photographs of winter scenes on the facing pages. An introductory essay by Susan Youens (musicology, U. of Notre Dame) offers a critical examination of the song cycle. The music CD features a new recording of Winterreise, performed by baritone Paul Rowe and pianist Martha Fischer. Oversize: 10.25x10.25". Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299186008

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Heinrich Heine and the Lied

By: Susan Youens

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Heinrich Heine and the Lied

By: Susan Youens

A study into the poet Heinrich Heine's impact on nineteenth-century song.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521823749

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Where Are My Susannas

By: Susan Hyatt

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Where Are My Susannas

By: Susan Hyatt

Discusses Susanna Wesley, Phoebe Palmer, and Aimee Semple McPherson.

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Liturgy Training Publications

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1888435038

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Jane Austen's Guide to Thrift

An Independent Woman's Advice on Living within One's Means

By: Kathleen Anderson,Susan Jones

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Jane Austen's Guide to Thrift

An Independent Woman's Advice on Living within One's Means

By: Kathleen Anderson,Susan Jones

Embrace your inner Jane and find a new way of life in thrift! Jane Austen knew that wealth and grandeur had little to do with happiness, and that fashionable new dresses and reticules to impress Mr. Darcy simply were not the path to fulfillment—especially when one accrues debt in the process. It’s as true today as it was then . . . Whether you have a fortune or not, you’re well advised to make the most of your income—and save for your future. Now, using the timeless wisdom and example of Jane Austen’s memorable heroines, this book offers everything the modern lady needs to know about: *Clever investing *Keeping up appearances on a budget *Giving and receiving graciously *Finding treasures at flea markets and church rummage sales *Planning a party that only looks extravagant *And more Jane Austen’s Guide to Thrift shows how to make your circumstances significantly less reduced, and how to live a life of elegent economy and joyful generosity—whether you’ve as much as Emma Woodhouse or as little as Miss Bates.

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Penguin

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1101622075

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