Schumann
1st Edition
Published on 20. February 2026
566 pages
978-1-040-89600-6 (ISBN)
Description
This collection is a compilation of many of the paths taken by scholars in their pursuit of knowledge about Schumann over the last half-century. Selected for their topical breadth and quality, the writings showcase different points of departure as well as their authors' allegiance to diverse methods of investigation.
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Roe-Min Kok is Associate Professor of Music at the Schulich School of Music, McGill University, Canada
Content
Sources and Critical Contexts
- Finson, Jon. "The Sketches for the Fourth Movement of Schumann's Second Symphony, Op. 61." Journal of the American Musicological Society 39/1 (1986): 143-168.
- Synofzik, Thomas. "Ein Rückert-Kanon als Keimzelle zu Schumanns Klavierkonzert Op. 54." Die Musikforschung 58/1 (2005): 28-32.
- Appel, Bernhard. "Schumanns Davidsbund. Geistes- und sozialgeschichtliche Voraussetzungen einer romantischen Idee." Archiv für Musikwissenschaft 38/1 (1981): 1-23.
- Daverio, John. "Schumann: Cryptographer or Pictographer?" In John Daverio, Crossing Paths: Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms. Oxford et al: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. 65-102.
- Kok, Roe-Min. "Falling Asleep: Schumann, Lessing and Death in a Wunderhorn Lullaby." Special issue Verwandlungsmusik: Über komponierte Transfigurationen. Ed. Andreas Dorschel. Studien zur Wertungsforschung 48 (2007): 236-72.
- Lippman, Edward A. "Theory and Practice in Schumann's Aesthetics." Journal of the American Musicological Society 17/3 (1964): 310-345.
- Muxfeldt, Kristina. "Frauenliebe und Leben Now and Then." 19th-Century Music 25/ 1 (2001): 27-48.
Music Criticism, Literary Influences
- Plantinga, Leon B. "Schumann's View of 'Romantic'." Musical Quarterly 75/4, Anniversary Issue: Highlights from the First 75 Years (Winter 1991): 176-187. (Originally published in 1966)
- Thym, Jürgen. "Schumann in Brendel's Neue Zeitschrift für Musik from 1845 to 1856." In Mendelssohn and Schumann: Essays on their Music and its Context. Ed. Jon W. Finson and R. Larry Todd. Durham, North Carolina: Duke Univer
