8 Collections in the New Style

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. PART I Schumann’s Early Songs and the Lieder of His First Maturity
5. Introduction: Schumann’s Criticism and Early Lieder 3
6. 1 Songs of Marriage 18
7. 2 Irony and the Heine Cycles 51
8. 3 Cycles of Wandering 71
9. 4 Romances, Ballads, and the Via Media 93
10. 5 Lyrical Schemes: Collections of Earlier Lieder und Gesänge 120
11. PART II Schumann’s Later Songs
12. 6 The Advent of the “New Style” and the Later Cycles 157
13. 7 Poets in Review during the Later Years 191
14. 8 Collections in the New Style 226
15. Epilogue: Reception of the Late Style 261
16. Abbreviations 273
17. Notes 275
18. Editions of Music Consulted and Selected Bibliography 295
19. Index of Song Titles and Text Incipits 302
20. General Index 311