The Cambridge companion to the lied / edited by James Parsons.

Contiene: Notes on the contributors -- Acknowledgments -- The Lied in context: a chronology -- Names and dates mentioned in this volume -- Part I. Introducing a genre: Introduction: Why the Lied? / James Parsons -- 1. In the beginning was poetry / Jane K. Brown -- Part II. The birth and early history of a genre in the Age of Enlightenment: 2. The eighteenth-century Lied / James Parsons -- 3. The Lieder of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven / Amanda Glauert -- Part III. The nineteenth century: issues of style and development: 4. The Lieder of Schubert / Marie-Agnes Dittrich -- 5. The early nineteenth-century song cycle / Ruth O. Bingham -- 6. Schumann: reconfiguring the Lied / Jürgen Thym -- 7. A multitude of voices: The Lied at mid-century / James Deaville -- 8. The Lieder of Liszt / Rena Charnin Mueller -- 9. The Lieder of Brahms / Heather Platt -- 10. Tradition and innovation: the Lieder of Hugo Wolf / Susan Youens -- 11. Beyond song: instrumental transformations and adaptations of the Lied from Schubert to Mahler / Christopher H. Gibbs -- Part IV. Into the twentieth century: 12. The Lieder of Mahler and Richard Strauss / James L. Zychowicz -- 13. The Lied in the modern age: to mid century / James Parsons -- Part V. Reception and Performance: 14. The circulation of the Lied: the double life of an artwork and a commodity / David Gramit -- 15. The Lied in performance / Graham Johnson -- A guide to suggested further reading.