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The Richard Strauss Companion
Mark-Daniel Schmid
Book Code: ARD/
ISBN: 0-313-27901-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-27901-0
480 pages, figures, tables, examples
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 9/30/2003
List Price: $125.00 (UK Sterling Price: £70.00)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • Schmid brings some welcome additions to recent literature on Strauss....Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers.
    —Choice     May 2004
  • This Companion is a delightful vade mecum. It will give pleasure to all ... [it] deserves to be read by anyone with an interest in music and to join the very select band of essential reference volumes.
    —Richard Strauss Society Newsletter     Spring 2005
Description: Featuring ten new essays on different aspects of the compositions, artistic influences, and persona of Richard Strauss, The Strauss Companion explores the composer's relationship to his own work and to that of his noted contemporaries. Guided by not only musical interests but literary, political, and philosophical ones as well, Strauss is an ideal candidate for this sort of treatment. Following this discussion of his influences, the volume moves to a discussion of the works themselves, including operas, tone poems, and stage works; these compositions are explored analytically and also in terms of their critical reception. The final chapter investigates for the first time Strauss's much-neglected choral works, revealing their rich musical and vocal capacities, while a select bibliography and complete works-list round out the volume. These colorful and intriguing essays are written by some of the foremost American, German, British, and Canadian Strauss scholars of our time, making it an important resource for students not only of Strauss's work, but of all musical composition and art music.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword by Bryan Gilliam
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Influences
  • The Influences of Richard Strauss by Heiner Wajemann
  • Strauss and His Contemporaries: Critical Perspectives by Peter Franklin
  • The Development of Richard Strauss's Worldview by Charles D. Youmans
  • Instrumental Works
  • Richard Strauss's Tone Poems by Walter Werbeck
  • The Early Reception of Richard Strauss's Tone Poems by Mark-Daniel Schmid
  • From "Too Many Works" to "Wrist Exercises": The Abstract Instrumental Compositions of Richard Strauss by Scott Warfield
  • Vocal Works
  • Richard Strauss before Salome: The Early Operas and Unfinished Stage Works by Morten Kristiansen
  • The Late Operas of Richard Strauss by James L. Zychowicz
  • Richard Strauss's Imagination by Pierre Marc Bellemare
  • The Lieder of Richard Strauss by Christine Getz
  • The Challenge of the Choral Works by Suzanne M. Lodato
  • Selected Bibliography by Scott Warfield
  • Index of Musical Works
  • General Index
  • About the Contributors
LC Card Number: 2002044545
LCC Class: ML410
Dewey Class: 780
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