Musicology Annotation << Back Fantasy Piece: a new genre and its facets in Schumann’s works Yulia G. Chernyavskaya A compound word «Fantasiestücke» (Fantasy Pieces) fi rst appeared in the title of Schumann’s piano cycle op. 12. This word was the fi rst to appear not only in Schumann’s works but in the whole music tradition. Fantasy Pieces op. 12 opens a chain of similarly-named cycles in Schumann’s music, in works of his contemporaries and composers of following generations. In this article, we analyse the Fantasy Pieces by Schumann, employing a comprehensive method that combines musicological and linguistic approaches. We consider the origin of this new genre in the context of Romantic literature, and use philological analysis of the word «Fantasiestücke» to reveal unique characteristics of Schumann’s Fantasy Pieces. Keywords: Robert Schumann, Fantasiestücke, Fantasy Pieces, fancy cycles, lyric miniature in music. Contacts: E-mail: yuliasinelnikova@yandex.ru Pp. 27-35.