Includes bibliographical references (pages 442-452) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Singing against late style: the problem of performance history / Laura Tunbridge. Reception Histories. 'Classical' music and Viennese resistance to Schubert's Beethoven project / John M. Gingerich ; Beethoven, Schubert, and the movement of phenomena / Scott Burnham ; [Un]Himmlische Länge: editorial intervention as reception history / Anne M. Hyland ; Citation, narrative and meaning: Woody Allen and the late Schubert / Harry White -- The Late Instrumental Music: Hermeneutics and Performance. Schubert's alchemy: transformative surfaces, transfiguring depths / Robert S. Hatten ; Against the grain: the Sonata in G (D. 894) and a hermeneutics of late style / Richard Kramer ; Schubert's Wiegenlied: the Andante sostenuto from the Piano Sonata in B♭, D. 960 / Eric Wen ; Schubert's reconciliation of gothic and classical influences / Marjorie Hirsch ; The first movement of Schubert's Piano Sonata D. 959 and the performance of analysis / Julian Horton -- The Late Instrumental Music: Meaning and Genre. Schubert hearing Don Giovanni: Mozartian death music in the 'Unfinished' Symphony / Glenn Stanley ; Longing for the unattainable: the second movement of the 'Great' C major Symphony / Lauri Suurpää ; Tonal recollection in Schubert's late instrumental music / Ryan McClelland ; Detours, wrong tracks, and dead ends: the Wanderer in the labyrinth of Schubert's late instrumental music / Xavier Hascher ; Formal ambiguity and generic reinterpretation in the late instrumental music / Su Yin Mak -- Defining Late Style. The 'problem of solitude' and critique in song: Schubert's loneliness / Susan Youens ; Music of the orphaned self? Schubert and concepts of late style / Lorraine Byrne Bodley ; Bounded finitude and boundless infinitude: Schubert's contradictions at the 'final barrier' / Blake Howe ; Invocations of memory in Schubert's last songs / Jürgen Thym ; "The prerogative of late style": thoughts on the expressive world of Schubert's late works / Benjamin M. Korstvedt ; Singing against late style: the problem of performance history / Laura Tunbridge.
Summary:
Schubert's late music has proved pivotal for the development of diverse fields of musical scholarship, from biography and music history to the theory of harmony. This collection addresses current issues in Schubert studies including compositional technique, the topical issue of 'late' style, tonal strategy and form in the composer's instrumental music, and musical readings of the 'postmodern' Schubert. Offering fresh approaches to Schubert's instrumental and vocal works and their reception, this book argues that the music that the composer produced from 1822-8 is central to a paradigm shift in the history of music during the nineteenth century. The contributors provide a timely reassessment of Schubert's legacy, assembling a portrait of the composer that is very different from the sentimental Schubert permeating nineteenth-century culture and the postmodern Schubert of more recent literature [Publisher description]
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