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Retracing A Winter's Journey: Franz Schubert's Winterreise. Weight: 1.05 lbs. Number of Pages: 331. ISBN10: 0801499666. Publication Date: 2015-05-06. Publisher: Cornell University Press. Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE ) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title: Retracing A Winter's Journey: Franz Schubert's Winterreise ISBN13: 9780801499661 ISBN10: 0801499666 Author: Youens, Susan (Author) Description: I 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, Winterreise 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 Retracing A Winter's Journey, Susan Youens Looks Not Only At Schubert's Music But At The Poetry, Drawn From The Works Of Wilhelm M Ller, 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 Youens Maintains That M Ller, 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, M Ller 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 Winterreise 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 Binding: Paperback, Paperback Publisher: Cornell University Press Publication Date: 2015-05-06 Weight: 1.05 lbs Dimensions: 0.9'' H x 8.9'' L x 5.9'' W Number of Pages: 331 Language: English