Abstract: Introduction Part I: Context Organicism Lyric cycles Self-reflexivity, fragments, and Hoffmann's Kater Murr Textual coherence in the song-cycle canon Key sequence Key characteristics and other alternative approaches to tonal sequence Part II: Conception to publication Before composing: texts and notebooks From conception to arrangement: 'Heine cycles' Ordering for publication Titles and title pages Flower imagery Part III: Arrangement Plot archetypes: sorrow to comfort Narrative Op. 32 as narrative Op. 57 as narrative Narrative elements in other bouquets Self-reflexivity Alternatives to narrative: juxtaposition and resonance Tempo, closure, and cyclic patterning 'Wie Melodien' Part IV: Performance Performance contexts Criteria in assembling a recital programme Gender and dramatic characterisation Identification between singer and narrator Tessitura, range, and performance by several singers Transposition Performance and coherence in the Ophelia-Lieder Part V: Reception Reviews Responses of Brahms's acquaintances Identification of composer with narrator Dedicatory cycles and the composer's voice The graphic cycles of Max Klinger Part VI: Cyclic Intent.
Publication Year: 2006
Publication Date: 2006-11-02
Language: en
Type: book
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