{"product_id":"retracing-a-winters-journey-9780801425998","title":"Retracing a Winters Journey","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eYouens addresses the different aspects of the Winterreise: its cultural milieu, the genesis of both the poetry and the music, Schubert's transformation of poetic cycle into music, the philosophical dimension of the work, and its musical structure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSusan Youens displays a rare ability at making penetrating comments on both poetry and music, as well as their interrelationship, and her book is full of interesting observations of details easily overlooked by those who have not studied the song cycle closely.\u003c\/p\u003e * Times Higher Education Supplement *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSusan Youens's \u003ci\u003eRetracing a Winter's Journey\u003c\/i\u003e is the most successful and appealing of the various recent studies of Winterreise. Youens is a true Schubertian, able to find the subtlety of the cycle and to take the reader through it in a way that broadens the understanding regardless of how familiar one may be with the work. She pays special attention to the texts, interpreting Müller's various images with a skill born of wide knowledge of the poet's other works as well as those of his contemporaries, and proceeding to an illumination of the role and importance of the texts in the musical setting.... The author's lucid and elegant writing never allows one to falter through the retracing of this fascinating journey.\u003c\/p\u003e * Music and Letters *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a book of considerable importance. Given the quantity of distinguished writing about Schubert's great song-cycle it is the author's outstanding achievement to have written a study that for scope, insight, and sheer readability eclipses previous responses to the challenge.... Youens combines to a degree as rare as it is admirable the sensitivities and deep knowledge of literary historian and musicologist.\u003c\/p\u003e * German History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the definitive book on the subject, by one of the world's leading lieder scholars.\u003c\/p\u003e * Time Out New York *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cb\u003ePart I. The Poet and the Composer\u003c\/b\u003e1. Genesis and Sources\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Texts of \u003ci\u003eWinterreise\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Music of W\u003ci\u003einterreise\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. The Songs\u003c\/b\u003e1. Gute Nacht\u003cbr\u003e 2. Die Wetterfahne\u003cbr\u003e 3. Gefror'ne Tränen\u003cbr\u003e 4. Erstarrung\u003cbr\u003e 5. Der Lindenbaum\u003cbr\u003e 6. Wasserflut\u003cbr\u003e 7. Auf dem Fluße\u003cbr\u003e 8. Rückblick\u003cbr\u003e 9. [Das] Irrlicht\u003cbr\u003e 10. Rast\u003cbr\u003e 11. Frühlingstraum\u003cbr\u003e 12. Einsamkeit\u003cbr\u003e 13. Die Post\u003cbr\u003e 14. Der greise Kopf\u003cbr\u003e 15. Die Krähe\u003cbr\u003e 16. Letzte Hoffnung\u003cbr\u003e 17. Im Dorfe\u003cbr\u003e 18. Der stürmische Morgen\u003cbr\u003e 19. Täuschung\u003cbr\u003e 20. Der Wegweiser\u003cbr\u003e 21. Das Wirtshaus\u003cbr\u003e 22. Mut\u003cbr\u003e 23. Die Nebensonnen\u003cbr\u003e 24. Der LeiermannPostlude\u003ci\u003eAppendix. \u003c\/i\u003eLudwig Uhland's \u003ci\u003eWander-Lieder\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eSelected Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405121495383,"sku":"9780801425998","price":97.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801425998.jpg?v=1730488772","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/retracing-a-winters-journey-9780801425998","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}