Of Poetry and Song: Approaches to the Nineteenth-Century Lied

Singers and pianists never tire of exploring the songs of Schubert and Schumann, Wolf and Mahler. But discussions of these marvelous works have too often given only brief consideration to the artistry of the poems – by such masters as Goethe, Heine, and Eichendorff – and to the composers' insightful interaction with that verbal art.
Of Poetry and Song: Approaches to the Nineteenth-Century Lied is an anthology of truly interdisciplinary studies of text-music relations in the German Lied. The chapters gathered in it (including some published here for the first time in English or indeed at all) were written by two musicologists – Rufus Hallmark and Jürgen Thym – and two German-literature specialists – Harry Seelig and the late Ann C. Fehn.
An extensive introduction by the volume's editor, Jürgen Thym, considers the fruitful ways in which the four authors meet the challenge of combining literary and musical analysis.
Jürgen Thym is Professor Emeritus of Musicology at the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music.
Table of Contents
On Schubert Reading Poetry: A Primer in the Rhythm of Poetry and Music - Rufus Hallmark
The Musical "Spirit" of Goethe's "Suleika": Schubert's Settings D. 720 and D. 717 - Harry E. Seelig
Text-Music Relations in Schumann's Eichendorff Song" Frühlingsfahrt" - Jurgen Thym
Hugo Wolf's Ghazal Settings from "Das Schenkenbuch" of Goethe's West-östlicher Divan - Harry E. Seelig
Karl Weigl's Opus 1 in Its Nineteenth-Century Context: A Historic Literary-Musical Fusion of Goethe's "Wanderers Nachtlied" and "Ein Gleiches" - Harry E. Seelig
"Hans Adam"-Goethe's Parodistic Creation Myth: A Parody Parodied by Hugo Wolf and Richard Strauss - Harry E. Seelig
Text and Music in Schubert's Settings of Pentameter Poetry - Rufus Hallmark and Ann C. Fehn
Repetition as Structure in the German Lied: The Ghazal - Ann C. Fehn and Jurgen Thym
Sonnet Structure and the German Lied: Shackles or Spurs? - Ann C. Fehn and Jurgen Thym
Schubert's Strategies in Setting Free Verse - Jurgen Thym and Ann C. Fehn
Hugo Wolf and Goethe's "Duodrama": Toward a "Better Understanding" of the Problematic Divan-Trinity of Life, Love, and Spirit - Harry E. Seelig
Text and Music in Mahler's Kindertotenlieder - Ann C. Fehn
The Rückert Lieder of Robert and Clara Schumann - Rufus Hallmark
A Cycle in Flux: Schumann's Eichendorff Liederkreis - Jurgen Thym
Why Dichterliebe Twice? The Case of Schumann's Opus 24 and Opus 48 - Rufus Hallmark
Discovering "Musical Impressionism" by Way of Eichendorff and Schumann: Wolf and Pfitzner at the Threshold - Jurgen Thym
Index