TY - JOUR T1 - Invoking Unheard Melodies: Rellstab’s Lyrics to Schubert’s “Serenade” JF - Monatshefte SP - 479 LP - 490 DO - 10.3368/m.111.4.479 VL - 111 IS - 4 AU - Rudolph Glitz Y1 - 2019/12/01 UR - http://mon.uwpress.org/content/111/4/479.abstract N2 - In this article, Ludwig Rellstab’s “Ständchen” or “Serenade” (1827), the poem set to music by Franz Schubert and included in the posthumous Schwanengesang collection (D 957), is a) translated with an emphasis on verbal and syntactical accuracy and b) interpreted in more detail than usual. The various interpretations offered range from a straightforward conventional reading that presumes a standard serenading situation over a more elusive one in which the melodies invoked by the speaker remain unheard in any literal sense to, finally, a “supernatural” one, in which the song as adapted and appropriated by Schubert takes the form of a communication from the afterlife. (RG) ER -