{"product_id":"retracing-a-winters-journey-franz-schuberts-winterreise-hardback-9780801425998","title":"Retracing a Winter's Journey; Franz Schubert's \"Winterreise\" (Hardback) 9780801425998","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRetracing a Winter's Journey\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFranz Schubert's \"Winterreise\"\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSusan Youens (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780801425998\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 6 May 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e348 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\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) \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) \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) \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)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eI like these songs better than all the rest, and someday you will too, Franz Schubert told the friends who were the first to hear his song cycle, \u003ci\u003eWinterreise\u003c\/i\u003e. These lieder have always found admiring audiences, but the poetry he chose to set them to has been widely regarded as weak and trivial. In \u003ci\u003eRetracing a Winter's Journey\u003c\/i\u003e, Susan Youens looks not only at Schubert's music but at the poetry, drawn from the works of Wilhelm Müller, who once wrote in his diary, \"perhaps there is a kindred spirit somewhere who will hear the tunes behind the words and give them back to me!\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYouens maintains that Müller, in depicting the wanderings of the alienated lover, produced poetry that was simple but not simple-minded, poetry that embraced simplicity as part of its meaning. In her view, Müller used the ruder folk forms to give his verse greater immediacy, to convey more powerfully the wanderer's complex inner state. Youens addresses many different aspects of \u003ci\u003eWinterreise\u003c\/i\u003e: the cultural milieu to which it belonged, 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\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\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\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52531217039640,"sku":"9780801425998","price":86.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/retracing-a-winters-journey-franz-schuberts-winterreise-hardback-9780801425998","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}