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The pianist has been an especially intimate and integral musical partners of singers in the performance of song literature from the eighteenth century to the present. Therefore, the most careful and well-informed preparation of the piano accompaniment is crucial to the successfu…

This paper contains a historical, theoretical, hermeneutical, and performative analysis of several song cycles, songs, and an aria. Chapter One contains an analysis of the historical, theoretical, and social elements of the song cycle, Try Me, Good King: The Last Words of the Wi…