Bücher von Laura (University of Manchester) Tunbridge

Using a wide range of examples from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, this is an invaluable introduction to the important musical genre of the song cycle. It considers social and performance contexts, the impact of recording technology and how the song cycle interacts with operatic, symphonic and popular music.

Schumann's Late Style is devoted to the study of Robert Schumann's little-known music from the 1850s. It considers our assumptions about the quality of his music in this period, its poetic and formal qualities, and its relationship to the composer's biography.