This book explores rhythm and meter in the German Lied, including songs by Hensel, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, and Wolf. It provides new methodologies for analysis and close readings of individual songs. It illustrates the transformation of poetic meter into musical rhythm and situates songs within larger aesthetic and historical narratives.

Yonatan Malin is a music theorist with special interests in song analysis, embodied meaning, romanticism, and theories of rhythm and meter. He has published articles and reviews in Music Theory Spectrum and Music Analysis, and has presented papers at regional and national meetings of the Society for Music Theory. Professor Malin enjoys teaching music history and theory at Wesleyan University.

• Introduction


• 1.: Virginians Dissent: Snakes, Hornets, and Brimstone


• 2.: Negotiating Support for the War and Religious Freedom


• 3.: British Failures and Plans for Success


• 4.: Mobilizing Support: Did the Dissenters Fight?


• 5.: After the War: A Resurgent Establishment and the End of Compulsion


• 6.: What Did They Fight, and Bargain, For?


• Epilogue


• Notes


• Bibliography


• Index