German and Song 1740 - 1900 (Paperback)

1. The Beginnings: 1740-80 2. ‘Im Volkston’ 3. Switzerland and Austria 4. Song-Texts in the Latter Part of the Eighteenth Century 5. Composers and Performers 6. Simplicity as an ideal 7. The New Adventurousness in the Late Eighteenth Century 8. The Eighteenth Century ? A Summing Up 9. From the turn of the Century to Schumann, Mendelssohn and Franz 10. The Development Towards Great Complexity 11. Theories of Song and the Ideal of ‘Hausmusik’ 12. The Importance of Folksong 13. A General Assessment 14. Paths into the Twentieth Century