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This course considers the repertoire of nineteenth-century German art song through a focused study of the works of four major figures: Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, and Wolf. We will address theories of text in music, evolving notions of the song “cycle,” analytical approaches to the lied, and the place of the lied within the social sphere. We will devote particular attention to Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin and Winterreise, Schumann’s Dichterliebe, and Brahms’s Vier ernste Gesänge.