The Lied at the Crossroads of Performance and Musicology

Benjamin Binder is a musicologist and pianist whose work on German Romantic music, art song, and performance has appeared in Nineteenth-Century Music Review, Journal of the American Musicological Society, Music Theory Online, and many edited volumes. From 2010–14 he directed the Vancouver International Song Institute's Song Scholarship and Performance program. Jennifer Ronyak is the author of Intimacy, Performance, and the Lied in the Early Nineteenth Century (2018). In 2021–22 she was a Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow at the University of Oxford, where she pursued work on a book project currently titled Composing Philosophy: Amateur Approaches to Western Thought in Classical Music.

'This book affirms the power of song in forging dialogues across performance and research. To engage with song, the volume shows, is to reimagine the lines between the sonic and the textual, the historical and the contemporary, and to embrace a genre that stands at the forefront of musicological innovation.' Joe Davies, University of California, Irvine

• Introduction Benjamin Binder and Jennifer Ronyak; 1. In search of song: Richard Strauss's 'Schlechtes Wetter' between poem, music, and performance Benjamin Binder; 2. Max Heinrich, 'wizard of song': dramatizing lieder for American audiences Heather Platt; 3. Fragmenting frauenliebe und -leben: reading and performing alternative lives and loves Natasha Loges; 4. Robert Schumann's 'Ich grolle nicht': unsettling the Song cycle Laura Tunbridge; 5. Schubert's Mignon and Reimann's Mignon: advocacy and analysis in the arrangement of little-known lieder Frankie Perry; 6. Locating the wanderer's solitude in choral and non-solo performances of Winterreise Jennifer Ronyak; 7. Analysis, performance, and the deep nineteenth century: the case of Marie Franz Stephen Rodgers; 8. Crossing boundaries: Lieder in mixed-genre performance and the intersection of research and praxis Lisa Feurzeig; 9. Singers speak about musicology and performance Benjamin Binder and Jennifer Ronyak.