Preface

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Figures ix
4. List of Tables xi
5. List of Contributors xiii
6. Acknowledgements xvii
7. Preface xxi
8. Introduction: Internal Dramas 1
9. Part I Stage and sacred works
10. 1 Opera that Vanished: Goethe, Schubert, and Claudine von Villa Bella 9
11. 2 Pioneering German Musical Drama: Sung and Spoken Word in Schubert’s Fierabras 35
12. 3 The Dramatic Monologue of Schubert’s Mass in Ab Major 51
13. Part II Lieder
14. 4 Schubert’s Dramatic Lieder: Rehabilitating ‘Adelwold und Emma’, D. 211 83
15. 5 Gretchen abbandonata: The Lied as Aria 107
16. 6 The Dramatic Strategy Within Two of Schubert’s Serenades 133
17. 7 ‘Durch Nacht und Wind’: Tempesta as a Topic in Schubert’s Lieder 151
18. 8 Reentering Mozart’s Hell: Schubert’s ‘Gruppe aus dem Tartarus’, D. 583 171
19. Part III Instrumental music
20. 9 ‘Zumsteeg Ballads without Words’: Inter-Generic Dialogue and Schubert’s Projection of Drama through Form 203
21. 10 Lyricism and the Dramatic Unity of Schubert’s Instrumental Music: The Impromptu in C Minor, D. 899/1 233
22. 11 Music as Poetry: An Analysis of the First Movement of Schubert’s Piano Sonata in A Major, D. 959 257
23. 12 Virtual Protagonist and Musical Narration in the Slow Movements of Schubert’s Piano Sonatas D. 958 and D. 960 283
24. 13 Stylistic Disjuncture as a Source of Drama in Schubert’s Late Instrumental Works 303
25. Select Bibliography 331
26. Index 341