Abstract
This chapter explores the relation of musical structure to textual imagery in Franz Schubert's song Auf dem Flusse, from Die Winterreise. First, it develops a general critical stance toward the relation of music and text in Schubert's songs. The chapter then offers a reading of the text for this specific song. According to this reading, the text is in a sense “about” the creation and evaluation of a poetic image. From a theoretical view, the aspects touched on are of a traditional sort: the length of musical sections vis-à-vis text sections, tonality, modality, the relations of the vocal line to the soprano and bass lines of its accompaniment, and motivic rhythms.
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