Poetry Into Song: Performance and Analysis of Lieder - Paperbackby Deborah Stein (Author), Robert Spillman (Author) Focusing on the music of the great song composers Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Wolf, and Strauss Poetry Into Song offers a systematic introduction to the performance and analysis of Lieder . Part I, "The Language of Poetry," provides chapters on the themes and imagery of German Romanticism and the methods of analysis for German Romantic poetry. Part II, "The Language of the Performer," deals with