Download or read book Schumann's Eichendorff Liederkreis and the Genre of the Romantic Cycle written by David Ferris and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new study draws on analysis, literary criticism, and source studies to propose a new conception of the nineteenth-century romantic cycle. Rather than a unified whole, the cycle is seen as a fragmentary and open-ended form, which enables Schumann to express the romantic themes of transcendence and ineffability in musical terms.