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Rethinking Schubert (Paperback)
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Rethinking Schubert (Paperback)
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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 portrait of Schubert that is vibrant, plural,
trans-national, and complex.
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