Schumann's Music and E. T. A. Hoffmann's Fiction

Schumann's Music and E. T. A. Hoffmann's Fiction

MacAuslan, John

Cambridge University Press

05/2016

300

Dura

Inglês

9781107141230

15 a 20 dias

John MacAuslan interprets four great Schumann works in the context of their literary connections and Romantic aesthetic concepts.
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: Fantasiestucke, 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: Nachtstucke, 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.