ANDREW H. WEAVER is Professor of Musicology at The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC.

By taking a deep dive into not just the most-studied cycles or most performed songs, but into many other corners of Schumann's songs both from 1840 and his later period, Andrew H. Weaver offers a number of musico-poetic insights throughout that can inspire ongoing work on this large body of song.

• AcknowledgmentsNote on Online MaterialIntroductionPart One: A Theory of Narratology for the Lied1. Narratological Foundations: The Lied as Narrative Text2. Narrative Agency: Narrators, Characters, Focalizers3. Narrative Action: Events in Lyric Poetry and LiederPart Two: Schumann's Lieder through the Narratological Lens4. Narrating in Song: Analyses of Individual Lieder5. Schumann and the Ballad6. Multiplying Voices: Schumann's Songs for Two, Three, and Four Voices7. Schumann's CyclesPostludeGlossary of Narratological TermsBibliographyIndex of Schumann's SongsGeneral Index

ANDREW H. WEAVER is Professor of Musicology at The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC.

By taking a deep dive into not just the most-studied cycles or most performed songs, but into many other corners of Schumann's songs both from 1840 and his later period, Andrew H. Weaver offers a number of musico-poetic insights throughout that can inspire ongoing work on this large body of song.

• AcknowledgmentsNote on Online MaterialIntroductionPart One: A Theory of Narratology for the Lied1. Narratological Foundations: The Lied as Narrative Text2. Narrative Agency: Narrators, Characters, Focalizers3. Narrative Action: Events in Lyric Poetry and LiederPart Two: Schumann's Lieder through the Narratological Lens4. Narrating in Song: Analyses of Individual Lieder5. Schumann and the Ballad6. Multiplying Voices: Schumann's Songs for Two, Three, and Four Voices7. Schumann's CyclesPostludeGlossary of Narratological TermsBibliographyIndex of Schumann's SongsGeneral Index

ANDREW H. WEAVER is Professor of Musicology at The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC.

By taking a deep dive into not just the most-studied cycles or most performed songs, but into many other corners of Schumann's songs both from 1840 and his later period, Andrew H. Weaver offers a number of musico-poetic insights throughout that can inspire ongoing work on this large body of song.

• AcknowledgmentsNote on Online MaterialIntroductionPart One: A Theory of Narratology for the Lied1. Narratological Foundations: The Lied as Narrative Text2. Narrative Agency: Narrators, Characters, Focalizers3. Narrative Action: Events in Lyric Poetry and LiederPart Two: Schumann's Lieder through the Narratological Lens4. Narrating in Song: Analyses of Individual Lieder5. Schumann and the Ballad6. Multiplying Voices: Schumann's Songs for Two, Three, and Four Voices7. Schumann's CyclesPostludeGlossary of Narratological TermsBibliographyIndex of Schumann's SongsGeneral Index