Schubert the Progressive

Bringing together two burgeoning concerns in Schubert studies, this volume of essays discusses issues of performance practice that have absorbed both practitioners and commentators in the last quarter century, together with the demythologising of Schubert as man and composer.

Brian Newbould

Contents: Preface; Schubert and the example of Mozart, Charles Rosen; Death and the composer: the context of Schubert's supernatural Lieder, Clive McClelland; Notation and performance: dynamic marks in Schubert's manuscripts, Walther Dürr; Tonal implication and the gestural dialectic in Schubert's A Minor Quartet, James William Sobaskie; Schöne Welt, wo bist du?: motive and form in Schubert's A Minor String Quartet, Nicholas Rast; Timelessness and 'released time' - Franz Schubert and composition today, Susanne Kogler; Unknown versions of Schubert's early piano sonatas, Walburga Litschauer; Cornered in the middle eight: dance miniaturism vis-à-vis sonata, Brian Newbould; Reading between the lines of tempo and rhythm in the B Flat Sonata, D960, Roy Howat; The Doppelgänger revealed?, Roger Neighbour; Schubert's Pastoral: the Piano Sonata in G Major, D894, Robert Hatten; General Index; Index of works by Schubert referred to in the text.