Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
PART I Schumann's Early Songs and the Lieder of His First Maturity
Introduction: Schumann's Criticism and Early Lieder
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
Abbreviations
Notes
Editions of Music Consulted and Selected Bibliography
Index of Song Titles and Text Incipits
General Index