Text-music relations in Richard Strauss's Im Abendrot

This thesis examines in detail the ways in which music and text relate to and condition each other in Richard Strauss's Im Abendrot (1948), the first of the Vier letzte Iieder. The first chapter consists of an analysis and interpretation of the text itself, a poem written by Joseph von Eich...

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Main Author: Parson, Laurel Jeanne
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/42069