Anne M. Hyland is Lecturer in Music Analysis at the University of Manchester and Associate Editor of Music Analysis. Her work on Schubert has appeared in leading journals and edited volumes on the composer. Her first published article won the Music Analysis 25th Anniversary Prize (2009).

'Considering the renewed interest in matters of musical form and the continuing fascination with this early Romantic composer, Hyland's book is a timely contribution that is eminently readable and elegant.' William E. Caplin, FRSC, Distinguished James McGill Professor Emeritus of Music Theory, McGill University

• Part I. Contexts: 1. The lyric impulse: musicological and methodological contexts; 2. Schubert's string quartets: historical and analytical contexts; Part II. Analysis: 3. Musical closure and functional transformation: reanimating the dynamics of the lyric; 4. Schubert the progressive: parataxis and the dialectics of lyric teleology; 5. The temporality of lyric teleology: once more between sonata and variation in Schubert's quartets.

Anne M. Hyland is Lecturer in Music Analysis at the University of Manchester and Associate Editor of Music Analysis. Her work on Schubert has appeared in leading journals and edited volumes on the composer. Her first published article won the Music Analysis 25th Anniversary Prize (2009).

'Considering the renewed interest in matters of musical form and the continuing fascination with this early Romantic composer, Hyland's book is a timely contribution that is eminently readable and elegant.' William E. Caplin, FRSC, Distinguished James McGill Professor Emeritus of Music Theory, McGill University

• Part I. Contexts: 1. The lyric impulse: musicological and methodological contexts; 2. Schubert's string quartets: historical and analytical contexts; Part II. Analysis: 3. Musical closure and functional transformation: reanimating the dynamics of the lyric; 4. Schubert the progressive: parataxis and the dialectics of lyric teleology; 5. The temporality of lyric teleology: once more between sonata and variation in Schubert's quartets.

Anne M. Hyland is Lecturer in Music Analysis at the University of Manchester and Associate Editor of Music Analysis. Her work on Schubert has appeared in leading journals and edited volumes on the composer. Her first published article won the Music Analysis 25th Anniversary Prize (2009).

'Considering the renewed interest in matters of musical form and the continuing fascination with this early Romantic composer, Hyland's book is a timely contribution that is eminently readable and elegant.' William E. Caplin, FRSC, Distinguished James McGill Professor Emeritus of Music Theory, McGill University

• Part I. Contexts: 1. The lyric impulse: musicological and methodological contexts; 2. Schubert's string quartets: historical and analytical contexts; Part II. Analysis: 3. Musical closure and functional transformation: reanimating the dynamics of the lyric; 4. Schubert the progressive: parataxis and the dialectics of lyric teleology; 5. The temporality of lyric teleology: once more between sonata and variation in Schubert's quartets.