| Description |
1 online resource (273 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- The Songs of Fanny Hensel -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- About the Companion Website -- 1. Introduction -- Part I. Nature and Travel -- 2. The Wilderness at Home: Woods-Romanticism in Fanny Hensel's Eichendorff Songs -- 3. Waldszenen and Abendbilder: Fanny Hensel, Nikolaus Lenau, and the Nature of Melancholy -- 4. Songs of Travel: Fanny Hensel's Wanderings -- Part II. Settings of English Verse -- 5. Women's Private Cosmopolitanism in Literary Translation and Song: Fanny Hensel's Drei Lieder nach Heinrich Heine von Mary Alexander |
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6. "In this elusive language": A Byron Song by Fanny Hensel -- Part III. Tonal Ingenuity -- 7. "You too may change": Tonal Pairing of the Tonic and Subdominant in Two Songs by Fanny Hensel -- 8. Plagal Cadences in Fanny Hensel's Songs -- Part IV. Responses to Poetic Form -- 9. Working with Words: Revisions of Declamation in Fanny Hensel's Song Autographs -- 10. Modulating Couplets in Fanny Hensel's Songs -- Part V. Beyond Hensel/Beyond Song -- 11. Reading Poetry Through Music: Fanny Hensel and Others |
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12. Fanny Hensel's Lieder (ohne Worte) and the Boundaries of Song: The Curious Case of the Lied in D♭ major, Op. 8, No. 3 -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Fanny Hensel is arguably the most gifted female composer of the nineteenth century, but her music has long been overlooked. The Songs of Fanny Hensel is a groundbreaking collection of new scholarship on Hensel's highly original contributions to the genre of song, the art form that she said ""suits her best."" |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Hensel, Fanny Mendelssohn, 1805-1847. Songs.
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Hensel, Fanny Mendelssohn, 1805-1847 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Hensel, Fanny Mendelssohn, 1805-1847 fast |
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Songs (Hensel, Fanny Mendelssohn) fast |
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Songs -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Songs
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780190919580 |
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0190919582 |
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