Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Safeguarding the Self
2. Breathing Subjectivity
3. Serious Play in the Salon
4. The Poetic Public Sphere
5. Lieder in an Aria's Clothing
6. Mignon as Public Property
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
Jennifer Ronyak is Senior Scientist in Musicology at the Institut für Musikästhetik of the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz.
Ronyak's intricate methodology, and especially the central position
of women in this book, will be an invaluable model for future
performance-centric song scholarship that continues to challenge
and complement text^music hermeneutics. All in all, this debut
monograph is a significant and innovative addition to the study of
the early nineteenth-century lied.
*Music & Letters*
As a musicologist who has studied rather extensively text-music
relations in German Lieder, I have long been aware of some
important voices in the field. Certain of their writings have
provided eye-opening and ear-opening jolts to interdisciplinary
studies, generally within the world of musical scholarship. . . . I
may be accused of hyperbole, but I consider Jennifer Ronyak's
Intimacy, Performance, and the Lied in the Early Nineteenth Century
as having a similar jolt-providing nature. . . . Her rich
interdisciplinary approach is indeed a model for others to
follow.
*Revue de Musicologie*
In privileging historical perspectives on subjectivity and
performance, Ronyak's monograph offers a rare glimpse into the
private, semiprivate, and public contexts that shaped
nineteenth-century sociability and concert programming. . . .
Ronyak's stimulating study will be welcomed by all who continue to
explore the rich expressive potential of poetry and music in the
nineteenth-century lied.
*NOTES: QTLY JRL MUSIC LIB ASSN*
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