Article: Fantasy Pieces: Metrical Dissonance in the Music of Robert Schumann.(Review)

Fantasy Pieces: Metrical Dissonance in the Music of Robert Schumann. By Harald Krebs. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. [xii, 290 p. ISBN 0-19-511623-2. $65.]

Harald Krebs has spent a good deal of his professional life in the company of Robert Schumann, and his new book is a celebration of that relationship. The intellectual motivation behind Krebs's book, however, is not so much Schumann the composer but analytical method. Krebs has developed a powerful theoretical tool designed to interpret various kinds of rhythmic and metrical conflicts. This tool is valuable because it is effective for interpreting not only the music of Schumann, but any work in which ...

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