Rethinking Schumann

This collection of essays aims to broaden and update scholarly approaches to Schumann, by considering his works and their reception in the context of various cultural and socio-institutional frameworks, from mid-nineteenth-century politics, through Nazi Germany, to late-twentieth-century popular culture.

Roe-Min Kok is Assistant Professor of Music at McGill University. She is co-editor of Musical Childhoods and the Cultures of Youth (2006).
Laura Tunbridge is Senior Lecturer in Music Analysis and Critical Theory at the University of Manchester. Her publications include Schumann's Late Style (2007) and The Song Cycle (forthcoming).

- Preface,
- 1.: The Political Sphere
- 2.: "Robert Schumann and the Culture of German Nationhood,"
- Celia Applegate
- 3.: "Organizing German Musical Life at Mid-Century: Brendel, Schumann and the Leipzig Tonkünstlerversammlungen/Tonkünstlerverein,"
- James Deaville
- 4.: "The Cry of the Schuhu: Dissonant History in a Late Schumann Song,"
- Susan Youens
- 5.: "Segregating Sound: Robert Schumann in the Third Reich,"
- Lily M. Hirsch
- II. Popular Influences
- 5.: "At the Interstice between 'Popular' and 'Classical': Schumann's Poems of
- Queen Mary Stuart and European Sentimentality at Mid-Century,"
- Jon Finson
- 6.: "Who was Mignon, what was she? Popular Catholicism, Fairytale Archetype,
- and Puer Senex in the Reception of Schumann's Requiem für Mignon,"
- Roe-Min Kok
- 7.: "Entzückt: Schumann, Raphael, Faust,"
- Nicholas Marston
- 8.: "Schumann and Agencies of Improvisation,"
- Dana Gooley
- 9.: "Schumann's Melodramatic Afterlife,"
- Ivan Raykoff
- III. Analytical Approaches
- 10.: "Meter and Expression in Robert Schumann's Op. 90,"
- Harald Krebs
- 11.: "Hypermetric Dissonance in the Later Works of Robert Schumann,"
- William Benjamin
- 12.: "Associative Harmony, Tonal Pairing, and Middleground Structure in Schumann's Sonata Expositions: The Role of the Mediant in the First Movements of the Piano Quintet, Piano Quartet, and 'Rhenish' Symphony,"
- Peter Smith
- 13.: "Schumann and the style hongrois,"
- Julie Hedge Brown
- 14.: "Intermediate States of Key in Schumann,"
- David Kopp
- IV. 20th-Century Reception
- 15.: "Choreographing Schumann,"
- Wayne Heisler
- 16.: "The Fictional Lives of the Schumanns,"
- David Ferris
- 17.: "Deserted Chambers of the Mind (Schumann Memories),"
- Laura Tunbridge
- 18.: "Late Styles,"
- Scott Burnham