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Book SynopsisFanny Hensel is arguably the most gifted female composer of the nineteenth century, but her music has long been overlooked. The Songs of Fanny Hensel is a groundbreaking collection of new scholarship on Hensel's highly original contributions to the genre of song, the art form that she said "suits her best."
Trade ReviewIn its quality, range, and sophistication, The Songs of Fanny Hensel marks a new level of maturity in Hensel studies. * Marcia Citron, Music & Letters *
The Songs of Fanny Hensel stands as a landmark achievement in Hensel studies in its own right, but also demonstrates just how much of Hensel's 450+ works are yet to be explored. * Angela Mace Christian, Journal of Musicological Research *
A celebration of Fanny Hensel's contribution to early nineteenth-century Lieder has come nearly two centuries too late for her, but none too soon for us. This marvelous collection breaks through to the richness and astonishing originality of Hensel's songs, many of which still await publication. Songs of the forest, of the evening, of travel, of love both lived and lost express the breadth of Hensel's poetic range. Her preternatural capacity for capturing words in music, her uncommon tonal adventures, her unusual modes of closure-all these attributes emerge within the context of superb textual, historical, and musical analyses. The Songs of Fanny Hensel welcomes this composer into the classroom and the concert hall, and it secures her rightful place at the heart of the great Romantic Lieder tradition. * Janet Schmalfeldt, Professor Emeritus of Music, Tufts University *
A superb collection of essays from some of the world's leading experts on song. Fanny Hensel's Lieder finally receive the first-class scholarship they so richly deserve. * Matt BaileyShea, University of Rochester *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Chapter 1: Introduction Stephen Rodgers Part I: Nature and Travel Chapter 2: The Wilderness at Home: Woods-Romanticism in Fanny Hensel's Eichendorff Songs Amanda Lalonde Chapter 3: Waldszenen and Abendbilder: Fanny Hensel, Nikolaus Lenau, and the Nature of Melancholy Scott Burnham Chapter 4: Songs of Travel: Fanny Hensel's Wanderings Susan Wollenberg Part II: Settings of English Verse Chapter 5: Women's Private Cosmopolitanism in Literary Translation and Song: Fanny Hensel's Drei Lieder nach Heinrich Heine von Mary Alexander Jennifer Ronyak Chapter 6: "In this elusive language": A Byron Song by Fanny Hensel Susan Youens Part III: Tonal Ingenuity Chapter 7: "You too may change": Tonal Pairing of the Tonic and Subdominant in Two Songs by Fanny Hensel Tyler Osborne Chapter 8: Plagal Cadences in Fanny Hensel's Songs Stephen Rodgers Part IV: Responses to Poetic Form Chapter 9: Working with Words: Revisions of Declamation in Fanny Hensel's Song Autographs Harald Krebs Chapter 10: Modulating Couplets in Fanny Hensel's Songs Yonatan Malin Part V: Beyond Song/Beyond Hensel Chapter 11: Reading Poetry Through Music: Fanny Hensel and Others Jürgen Thym Chapter 12: Fanny Hensel's Lieder (ohne Worte) and the Boundaries of Song: The Curious Case of the Lied in D flat major, Op. 8, No. 3 R. Larry Todd Bibliography
