Drama in the music of Franz Schubert

380 Pages·2019·12.43 MB·English

by  Davies, Joe, Schubert, Franz, Sobaskie, James William

Drama in the Music of
Franz Schubert
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Drama in the Music of
Franz Schubert
edited by
Joe Davies and James William Sobaskie
THE BOYDELL PRESS
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© Contributors 2019
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First published 2019
The Boydell Press, Woodbridge
ISBN 978 1 78327 365 2
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For Susan Wollenberg
with affection, admiration, and gratitude
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Contents
List of Figures ix
List of Tables xi
List of Contributors xiii
Acknowledgements xvii
Preface xxi
Introduction: Internal Dramas 1
Laura Tunbridge
part i: stage and sacred works
1 Opera that Vanished: Goethe, Schubert, and Claudine von Villa Bella 11
Lorraine Byrne Bodley
2 Pioneering German Musical Drama: Sung and Spoken Word in
Schubert’s Fierabras 35
Christine Martin
3 The Dramatic Monologue of Schubert’s Mass in A Major 51
James William Sobaskie 
part ii: lieder
4 Schubert’s Dramatic Lieder: Rehabilitating ‘Adelwold und
Emma’, D. 211 85
Susan Wollenberg
5 Gretchen abbandonata: The Lied as Aria 107
Marjorie Hirsch
6 The Dramatic Strategy Within Two of Schubert’s Serenades 133
James William Sobaskie
7 ‘Durch Nacht und Wind’: Tempesta as a Topic in Schubert’s Lieder 151
Clive McClelland
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8 Reentering Mozart’s Hell: Schubert’s ‘Gruppe aus dem
Tartarus’, D. 583 171
Susan Youens
part iii: instrumental music
9 ‘Zumsteeg Ballads without Words’: Inter-Generic Dialogue and
Schubert’s Projection of Drama through Form 205
Anne M. Hyland
10 Lyricism and the Dramatic Unity of Schubert’s Instrumental Music:
The Impromptu in C Minor, D. 899/1 233
Brian Black
11 Music as Poetry: An Analysis of the First Movement of Schubert’s
Piano Sonata in A Major, D. 959 257
Xavier Hascher
12 Virtual Protagonist and Musical Narration in the Slow Movements
of Schubert’s Piano Sonatas D. 958 and D. 960 283
Lauri Suurpää
13 Stylistic Disjuncture as a Source of Drama in Schubert’s Late
Instrumental Works 303
Joe Davies
Select Bibliography 331
Index 341
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List of Figures
5.1 Goethe, Faust, Part I (1808), Scene 18 (Gretchen’s Zwinger
monologue) 108
5.2 Sequence: Stabat mater dolorosa 109
5.3 Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, Stabat mater (‘Jesus Christus
schwebt am Kreuze’) (1766), verses 1–3 118
6.1 Schubert’s persuasive strategy within ‘Ständchen (“Horch, Horch!
die Lerch”)’ and ‘Ständchen’ 136
6.2 Shakespeare, Cymbeline (1611), Act II, Scene 3, ‘Hark! hark! the
lark’; German adaptation ‘Horch, Horch! die Lerch’ by August
Wilhelm von Schlegel, as set by Schubert 137
6.3 Schubert, Schwanengesang, D. 957, No. 4, ‘Ständchen’, text by
Ludwig Rellstab, with translation 145
8.1 Friedrich Schiller, ‘Gruppe aus dem Tartarus’ (1780), text
with translation 177
9.1 Schubert, Overture for String Quintet in C minor, D. 8,
exposition, form-functional analysis 221
9.2 Schubert, Overture for String Quintet in C minor, D. 8,
recapitulation, form-functional analysis 225
10.1 Formal Implications in the Structure of the Impromptu in
C minor, D. 899/1 240
12.1 Schubert, Piano Sonata in C minor, D. 958, second movement,
chart of form 285
12.2 Schubert, Piano Sonata in B major, D. 960, second movement,
chart of form  293
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