Bodley, Lorraine Byrne - Rethinking Schubert

Rethinking Schubert offers a conspectus of issues in Schubert scholarship, a reappraisal of key debates, and an exploration of new avenues of research. It brings together twenty-two essays by some of today's most important Schubert scholars, which provide new insights into this composer, his music, his influence, and his legacy.

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CONTENTS

Introduction
Lorraine Byrne Bodley and Julian Horton: 'Rethinking Schubert: Contexts and Controversies
Part I: Style
1. Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen: Is there a Late Style in Schubert's Oeuvre?
2. Walter Durr: Compositional Strategies of late Schubert
3. William Kinderman: Franz Schubert's 'New Style' and the Legacy of Beethoven
4. Susan Wollenberg: From Song to Instrumental Style: Some Schubert 'Fingerprints'
5. Brian Black: The Sensual as a Constructive Element in Schubert's Late Works
Part II: Instrumental Music
6. Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl: The Myth of the 'Unfinished'?
7. Xavier Hascher: Narrative Dislocations in the First Movement of Schubert's 'Unfinished' Symphony
8. Cameron Gardner: Reappraising Schubert's 'Reliquie': Precedents, the 'Great' Symphony and Narrative
9. Anne Hyland and Walburga Litschauer: 'Records of Inspiration': Schubert's drafts for the last three piano sonatas reappraised
10. Julian Caskel: Musical Causality in Schubert's Piano Sonata D 959, first movement
11. David Damschroder: Conspicuous 6-Phase Chords in the Closing Movement of Schubert's Piano Sonata in B flat Major, D 960
12. Leon Plantinga: Schubert, Popular Music, and Melancholy
Part III: Music and Text
13. Michael Spitzer: Axial Lyric Space in Two Late Songs: 'Im Freien' and 'Der Winterabend'
14. Suzannah Clark: Schubert Through a Neo-Riemannian Lens.
15. James Sobaskie: Contextual Processes in Schubert's Late Church Music
16. Lisa Feurzeig: Elusive Intimacy in Schubert's Final Opera, Der Graf von Gleichen
17. Deborah Stein: The Wanderer's Chromatic Journey in Schubert's Winterreise
18. David Ferris: Dissociation and Declamation in Schubert's Heine Songs
19. Richard Giarusso: 'The Messenger of a Faithful Heart': Reassessing the Role of 'Die Taubenpost' in Schubert's Schwanengesang
20. Benjamin Binder: Disability, Self-Critique, and Failure in Schubert's 'Der Doppelganger'
21. Lorraine Byrne Bodley: Challenging the Context: Reception and Transformation in Schubert's 'Der Musensohn', D 764, Op. 92, no.1
22. Susan Youens: Mayrhofer's 'Der Einsame': A Gauntlet Thrown: Schubert's 'Einsamkeit', D 620, and Beethoven's An die ferne Geliebte'
Postlude
Graham Johnson