The Songs of Fanny Hensel 1st Edition by Stephen Rodgers 9780190919580 0190919582

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• ISBN 10: 0190919582
• ISBN 13: 9780190919580
• Author: Stephen Rodgers

Fanny Hensel created some of the most imaginative and original music of her era, making her arguably the most gifted female composer of the nineteenth century. While Hensel has finally stepped out of the shadow of her famous brother, Felix Mendelssohn, as scholars have begun to study her life and writings, her music has remained surprisingly underexamined. This collection places Hensel’s music at the center, focusing on the genre that not only made up more than half of her creative output but also, as Hensel herself put it, “suits her best”: song. In eleven new essays, leading scholars in the fields of music theory and musicology consider Hensel’s songs from a wide range of angles, covering topics such as Hensel’s fascination with particular poets and poetic themes; her innovative harmonic, melodic, rhythmic, and textual strategies; and her connection to larger literary and musical trends. The chapters also provide insight into Hensel’s efforts to break free from the constraints placed on her as a woman and her place in the larger history of the nineteenth-century Lied. Drawing on diverse biographical, historical, cultural, and musical contexts for their detailed discussions of Hensel’s songs, the authors underline Hensel’s historical importance and deepen our understanding and appreciation of her compositions. This volume, in short, finally gives Fanny Hensel and her songs the stage that they deserve.

Table contents:

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
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
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

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