The Lied at the Crossroads of Performance and Musicology

Benjamin Binder, Jennifer Ronyak

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN:
  9781009008525
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music

There seems to be an essential relationship between the performance and the scholarship of the German Lied. Yet the process by which scholarly inquiry and performative practices mutually benefit one another can appear mysterious and undefined, in part because any dialogue between the two invariably unfolds in relatively informal environments – such as the rehearsal studio, seminar room or conference workshop. Contributions from leading musicologists and prominent Lied performers here build on and deepen these interactions to reconsider topics including Werktreue aesthetics and concert practices; the authority of the composer versus the performer; the value of lesser-known, incomplete, or compositionally modified songs; and the traditions, habits and prejudices of song recitalists regarding issues like transposition, programming and dramatic modes of presentation. The book as a whole reveals the reciprocal relevance of Lied musicology and Lied performance, thereby opening doors to fresh and exciting modes of interpretative artistry and intellectual discovery.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Music Examples
• List of Contributors
• Foreword: Susan Youens: The Ivory Tower and the Stairway to Paradise
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 In Search of Song: Richard Strauss’s “Schlechtes Wetter” between Poem, Music, and Performance
• 2 Max Heinrich, “Wizard of Song”: Dramatizing Lieder for American Audiences
• 3 Fragmenting Frauenliebe und -leben: Reading and Performing Alternative Lives and Loves
• 4 Robert Schumann’s “Ich grolle nicht”: Unsettling the Song Cycle
• 5 Schubert’s Mignon and Reimann’s Mignon: Advocacy and Analysis in the Arrangement of Little-Known Lieder
• 6 Locating the Wanderer’s Solitude in Choral and Nonsolo Performances of Winterreise
• 7 Analysis, Performance, and the Deep Nineteenth Century: The Case of Marie Franz
• 8 Crossing Boundaries: Lieder in Mixed-Genre Performance and the Intersection of Research and Praxis
• 9 Singers Speak about Musicology and Performance
• Bibliography
• Index