- Preface
- Sigla
- I. Schumann’s Early Songs and the Lieder of his First Maturity
- 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
- 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


Robert Schumann
The Book of Songs
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$76.00 • £66.95 • €69.95
ISBN 9780674026292
Publication Date: 01/31/2008