Robert Schumann’s Carnaval is much more than a set of character pieces and musical portraits, it is in fact also a work of ingenious orthographies. Schumann realized that the name of his fiancée's hometown, ‘Asch’, could betranslated into notes according to the German reckoning of pitch names: ‘A’ became A natural, ‘S’ (Es) E flat, ‘C’ C natural, and ‘H’ B natural. Moreover, when the letters are rearranged to S-C-H-A, they became symbolic of his ownname ‘SCHumAnn’. Each of the pieces in uses these notes and almost every section incorporates a variation of the A-S-C-H pattern.
Carnaval
| Instrument (fx guitar, sang m.m.) | Klaver |
| Sideantal | 48 |
| Media (fx Bog, CD, DVD m.m.) | Bog(softcover, hæftet) |
| Publisher/Producent | Edition Peters |
| Bidragydere | Schumann, Robert(Composer) |
| Sprog | Engelsk, Fransk, Tysk |
| ISMN | 9790014077099 |