Table of Contents
Part 1 Contexts for Women's Lieder, I: Blurring the gendered dichotomies: issues of gender and creativity for the female Lied composer. Absence and dialogue: Pauline von Decker in a performing and cultural context. In pursuit of a single flame: Fanny Hensel's 'musical salon'. Part 2 Individual Composers and their Lieder, I: Early 19th Century: 'Der Jungling und Das Madchen': Fanny Hensel, Felix Mendelssohn and the Zwolf Lieder, op. 9. Functions of piano introductions in the Lieder of Josephine Lang. Clara Schumann's 'Liebst du um Schonheit' and the integrity of a composer's vision. Part 3 Individual Composers and their Lieder, II: Later 19th Century: Pauline Viardot-Garcia's 'Ne poj, krasavica, pri mne' and the genre of Russian romance. (Re)claiming space for Ingeborg von Bronsart's Wildenbruch Lieder, op. 16. Cyclic organization, narrative and self-construction in Ethel Smyth's Lieder und Balladen, op. 3 and Lieder, op. 4, Cornelia Bartsch; Contrasting concepts of love in two songs by Alma Schindler(-Mahler) and Gustav Mahler. Part 4 Contexts for Women's Lieder, II: 'Und das hat mit ihrem Singen, Die Lore-Ley gethan': subjectivity and objectification in two Heine settings. Echoes of the Lied: women's vocal repertoire in 19th-century Ireland. Women composers of Lieder: selected sources.