TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sanna Iitti
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - The Feminine in German Song
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1102141
N2  - Nineteenth-century composers were drawn to subjects related to gender. Songs about women open a view into nineteenth-century understandings of gender and sexuality. The author argues about ways to hear sexual difference in Lied, analyzing musical compositions in the light of composer biographies and in terms of musical gestures. Her comparison of the Suleika and Lorelei songs by Romantic composers, including the Mendelssohns and the Schumanns, reveals cultural and sexual anxieties besides conflicting arguments about music and its perception. Both the songs and their critique illustrate the functioning of gender in nineteenth-century composition and aesthetic reasoning.
KW  - Deutschland, Lied, Geschichte 1800-1900, 19th-century Lied, Aesthetic, Feminist criticism, Analysis, Weiblichkeit (Motiv), Musical semiotic
LA  - English
ER  -