Preface

Sigla

Part I: Schumann's Early Songs and the Lieder of his First Maturity

Introduction: Schumann's Criticism and Early Songs

1. Songs of Marriage

2. Irony and the Heine Cycles

3. Cycles of Wandering

4. Romances, Ballads, and the Via media

5. Lyrical Schemes: Collections of Earlier Lieder und Gesänge

Part II: Schumann's Later Songs

6. The Advent of the "New Style" and the Later Cycles

7. Poets in Review during the Later Years

8. Collections in the New Style

Epilogue: Reception of the Late Style

Notes

Editions of Music Consulted and Bibliography

Index

Jon W. Finson is Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.