{"product_id":"schuberts-instrumental-music-and-poetics-of-interpretation-hardback-9780253067388","title":"Schubert's Instrumental Music and Poetics of Interpretation (Hardback) 9780253067388","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSchubert's Instrumental Music and Poetics of Interpretation\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRené Rusch (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253067388\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 30 September 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e244 pages, 6 b\u0026amp;w tables, 84 printed music items\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.454 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\u003e\"Rusch's book is a valuable addition to the analytical literature on Schubert. . . . Her analyses consistently embrace multiple subjectivities and subject positions and decline to \"give . . . unqualified allegiance to unity as the supreme value for analysis\" (Korsyn 2004, 338). Like Rusch, I find poetic correspondences between this open-ended analytical approach and the strange or uncanny qualities of Schubert's music, and I think her analyses reveal the potential for others to attempt a similar approach with the music of other elusive composers (Fauré comes to mind). Even if one is not persuaded by Rusch's \"postmodernist reluctance to accept a single or objective reality and engage with master narratives,\" it is important to note that she never rejects other analyses that privilege unity (194). The reader is rather repeatedly \"invited\" to contemplate Schubert's music from multiple different angles—the word \"invite\" is somewhat of a leitmotif in the book—and it would seem churlish to decline such a graciously offered invitation. I should also add that Rusch's embrace of multiple perspectives and subjectivities does not come at the expense of analytical detail or rigor. Her analyses are copiously illustrated with meticulous annotated examples that range from extremely detailed Schenkerian voice-leading graphs to neo-Riemannian Tonnetze to score excerpts annotated with formal labels.\"—Andrew Pau, \u003ci\u003eTheory and Practice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMusic scholarship's views of Franz Schubert's instrumental works continue to evolve. How might aesthetic values, historiographies, revisions to the composer's biography, and disciplinary commitments affect how we interpret his music?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSchubert's Instrumental Music and Poetics of Interpretation \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the aesthetic positions and operations that underlie critical assessments of Schubert's instrumental works. In six chapters, each devoted to one or two of Schubert's pieces, René Rusch examines the conditions that have prompted scholarship to reevaluate the composer's music and legacy, considers how different conclusions about his music may be reflective of certain aesthetic values, investigates the role of narrative in both music analysis and constructions of history, and explores alternative forms of coherence through updated analyses of the composer's instrumental works. Rusch's observations and comparative analyses address four significant areas of scholarly focus in Schubert studies, including his approach to chromaticism, his unique musical forms, the relationship between his music and biography, and the influence of Beethoven.\u003cbr\u003e Drawing from a range of philosophical, hermeneutic, historical, biographical, theoretical, and analytical sources, \u003ci\u003eSchubert's Instrumental Music and Poetics of Interpretation\u003c\/i\u003e offers readers a unique and innovative foray into the poetics of contemporary analyses of Schubert's instrumental music and develops new ways to engage with his repertoire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e 1. Schubert's Musical Reception and Contemporary Schubert Criticism\u003cbr\u003e 2. Rethinking Conceptions of Unity\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Value of Diatonic Indeterminacy When Traveling through Tonal Space\u003cbr\u003e 4. Sonata Forms, Fantasias, and Formal Coherence\u003cbr\u003e 5. Biography, Music Analysis, and the Narrative Impulse\u003cbr\u003e 6. Beyond Homage and Critique: Rethinking Musical Influence\u003cbr\u003e Closing Remarks\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52525595885848,"sku":"9780253067388","price":58.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/schuberts-instrumental-music-and-poetics-of-interpretation-hardback-9780253067388","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}