BOOKS ON LIEDER AND ART SONG:
Some wonderful resources for studying art song are Deborah Stein and Robert Spillman's Poetry into Song: Performance and Analysis of Lieder, and Carol Kimball's Art Song: Linking Poetry and Music and Song: A Guide to Art Song Style and Literature. Full information of these sources is included below, along with a few other books.
Gorrell, Lorraine. The Nineteenth-Century German Lied. Amadeus Press, 1993.
Hallmark, Rufus, ed. German Lieder in the Nineteenth Century. Schirmer Books, 1996.
Kenny, Aisling and Susan Wollenberg, eds. Women and the Nineteenth-Century Lied. Ashgate Publishing, 2015; Routledge, 2016.
Kimball, Carol. Art Song: Linking Poetry and Music. Rowman & Littlefield, 2013.
Kimball, Carol. Song: A Guide to Art Song Style and Literature. Rev. ed. Hal Leonard Corporation, 2006.
Muxfeldt, Kristina. Vanishing Sensibilities: Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann. Oxford University Press, 2011.
Parsons, James, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Lied. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Stein, Deborah and Robert Spillman. Poetry into Song: Performance and Analysis of Lieder. Oxford University Press, 1996.
ON SCHUBERT LIEDER:
This list contains only a small sprinkling of books on Schubert. John Reed's The Schubert Song Companion is very practical, and Graham Johnson's Schubert: The Complete Songs (in three huge volumes) is a magnificent tome, with articles on every song Schubert wrote, as well as on poets and friends of Schubert. His writing is also tremendously fun to read! Finally, you should get your hands on anything by Susan Youens, the goddess of Schubert lieder. I have included some of her books and book chapters below, with several more books by other authors, but the list is endless.
Brown, Jane K. “The Poetry of Schubert’s Songs.” In Schubert’s Vienna, edited by Raymond Erickson, 183-213. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.
Erickson, Raymond. Schubert’s Vienna. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.
Feurzeig, Lisa. Schubert’s Lieder and the Philosophy of Early German Romanticism. Ashgate Publishing, 2014; New York: Routledge, 2016.
Johnson, Graham. Schubert: The Complete Songs. 3 vols. Yale University Press, 2014.
Reed, John. The Schubert Song Companion. Manchester University Press, 1997.
Youens, Susan. Die Schöne Müllerin. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Youens, Susan. “Franz Schubert: The Prince of Song.” In German Lieder in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Rufus Hallmark, 31-74.Schirmer Books, 1996.
Youens, Susan. Retracing a Winter’s Journey: Schubert’s Winterreise. Cornell University Press, 1991.
Youens, Susan. “Schubert and his Poets: Issues and Conundrums.” In The Cambridge Companion to Schubert, edited by Christopher H. Gibbs, 99-118. Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Youens, Susan. Schubert, Müller, and Die schöne Müllerin. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997.
Youens, Susan. Schubert’s Poets and the Making of Lieder. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1999.