Andrew will present a paper entitled “Entextualization in Clara Schumann’s Nineteenth-Century Pianism” at the Society for Music Theory’s 2020 joint meeting with the American Musicological Society. AMS/SMT 2020 will take place online.
A paper on the same topic, which was slated to be given at the New England Conference of Music Theorists (NECMT) in April, has been postponed until 2021 due to pandemic conditions.
JingCi Liu said, Dear Andrew,
Greetings from JingCi Liu. I am currently pursuing DMA in piano performance at the University of Connecticut. I am a current graduate from Mannes School of Music at The New School.
My teacher Dr. Peter Kaminsky strongly recommended me to review your presentation about Clara Schumann’s project because I am currently doing her piano solo Op.6 for my CD album. Also, for one of my final papers on her Nocturnno, from Op.6.
Therefore, would that be possible for you to share the presentation recording on Clara Schumann that you did for “Entextualization in Clara Schumann’s Nineteenth-Century Pianism” at the Society for Music Theory’s 2020 conference” or even the presentation outlines will help me to research a lot!
Besides, are there books that you recommend for Clara Schumann’s music style?
These are what I have. It is hard to find more sources.
Reich, Nancy B. Clara Schumann : The Artist and the Woman. London: Gollancz, 1985.
Stefaniak, Alexander. “Clara Schumann’s Interiorities and the Cutting Edge of Popular Pianism.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 70, no. 3 (2017): 697–765. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2017.70.3.697.
Flynn, Claire. The Creative Art of Clara Schumann (1819-1896). Masters thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth. 1991.
Gates, Eugene. “Clara Schumann: A Composer’s Wife as Composer.” The Kapralova Society of Journal 7, no. 2 (2009): 1–8.
WEINSTEIN-REIMAN, MICHAEL. “‘Inside’ Voices and Coupling Dynamics: An Analysis of Clara Wieck-Schumann’s Notturno from Soirées Musicales, Op. 6 No. 2.” Theory and Practice 42 (2017): 1–27. https://doi.org/10.2307/26477742.
Lakner, Katie. “Formal and Harmonic Considerations in Clara Schumann’s Deri Romanzen, Op.21 No.1.”
Thank you very much for your kind consideration. I am very looking forward to hearing from you.
Best wishes,
JingCi Liu
In reply to JingCi Liu, andrew said, Hello! I’m sending you an email with this info, as well as the link to my presentation. I’d be glad to share some other sources with you, too. It’s awesome you’re recording the Op. 6. That Stefaniak article is great, by the way.
Litzmann, Berthold. Clara Schumann: Ein Künstlerleben, Nach Tagebüchern und Briefen. 3 Vols. Breitkopf & Härtel, 1908. This has a lot of material that Nancy Reich doesn’t address. It is more complex to use as a source, though, because Berthold Litzmann may have been involved in destroying some of Clara Schumann’s journals and letters at the request of her daughter. The original German edition is in three volumes and it’s enormous. There’s a greatly abridged translation into English by Grace Hadown from 1913.
Goertzen, Valerie Woodring. 1998. “Setting the Stage: Clara Schumann’s Preludes.” In In the Course of Performance: Studies in the World of Musical Improvisation, edited by Bruno Nettl and Melinda Russell, 237–60. University of Chicago Press. This is an excellent study of Schumann’s sketched preludes. She is said to have improvised them and written them down afterwards. She reported that it was difficult to write down her improvisations.
Loges, Natasha. 2020. “From Miscellanies to Musical Works: Julius Stockhausen, Clara Schumann and Dichterliebe.” In German Song Onstage: Lieder Performance in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, 70–86. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. This is on Schumann’s role in turning her husband’s compositions into canonical works.