Researching the Song:A LexiconOxford University Press, USA, 22 dec. 2005 - 528 pagini Singers are faced with a unique challenge among musicians: they must express not just the music, but the lyrics too. To effectively communicate the meaning behind these words, singers must understand the many references embedded in the vast international repertoire of great art songs. They must deal with the meaning of the lyrics, frequently in a language not their own and of a culture unfamiliar to them. From Zelter and Schubert to Rorem and Musto, Researching the Song serves as an invaluable guide for performers, teachers, and enthusiasts to the art song repertoire. Its more than 2,000 carefully researched entries supply information on most of the mythological, historical, geographical, and literary references contained in western art song. The authors explain the meaning of less familiar literary terms, figures, and authors referenced in song while placing songs in the context of larger literary sources. Readers will find entries dealing with art songs from the German, French, Italian, Russian, Spanish, South American, Greek, Finnish, Scandinavian, and both American and British English repertoires. Sources, narratives, and explanations of major song cycles are also given. Organized alphabetically, the lexicon includes brief biographies of poets, lists of composers who set each poet's work, bibliographic materials, and brief synopses of major works from which song texts were taken, including the plots of all Restoration theater works containing Purcell's vocal music. The more performers know and understand the literary elements of a song, the richer their communication will be. Researching the Song is a vital aid for singers and teachers in interpreting art songs and building song recital programs. |
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... New York . Because his adoptive father was a wealthy theater owner , Edward was raised in privilege and surrounded by an artistic atmosphere . He attended Broadway plays and came into contact with theater people at an early age . An ...
... New York . Because his adoptive father was a wealthy theater owner , Edward was raised in privilege and surrounded by an artistic atmosphere . He attended Broadway plays and came into contact with theater people at an early age . An ...
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... New York and New Orleans . When his father died ( ) , Aldrich had to give up Harvard and go to work as a junior literary critic of a newspaper . During the Civil War , Aldrich was sent to the front as a war corre- spondent for ...
... New York and New Orleans . When his father died ( ) , Aldrich had to give up Harvard and go to work as a junior literary critic of a newspaper . During the Civil War , Aldrich was sent to the front as a war corre- spondent for ...
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... New York street , exactly three blocks long , down at the tip of Manhattan Island . It is situated at the south end of City Hall Park , east of Broadway , two blocks from the approach to the Brooklyn Bridge , in the vicinity of Maiden ...
... New York street , exactly three blocks long , down at the tip of Manhattan Island . It is situated at the south end of City Hall Park , east of Broadway , two blocks from the approach to the Brooklyn Bridge , in the vicinity of Maiden ...
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... New York and was educated at Harvard , where he concentrated on English literature ; Columbia University , where he received his M.A. in ; and New York University ( – ) , after which he spent a decade in Paris ...
... New York and was educated at Harvard , where he concentrated on English literature ; Columbia University , where he received his M.A. in ; and New York University ( – ) , after which he spent a decade in Paris ...
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Researching the Song: A Lexicon Shirlee Emmons,Wilbur Watkins Lewis Jr. Previzualizare limitată - 2008 |
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American poet ballads beautiful became Benjamin Britten Benjamin Britten POET born Brahms Carl Loewe century Claude Debussy Colby collection composed by Henry COMPOSER Benjamin Britten COMPOSER Francis Poulenc critic daughter death details and placement Drabble drama dramatist Elkanah Settle English poet Fairie-Queene father Francis Poulenc Francis Poulenc POET Franz Schubert French poet Friedrich Gabriel Fauré George German poet Goethe Greek Henry Purcell Hugo Wolf Italian Jesus John Dryden Kunitz later legend literary literature lived married mother Ned Rorem novel novelist Paris Paul Paul Verlaine Peter placement of songs play playwright plot details poems poet POET William poetic poetry was set popular PRINCIPAL prose published Richard Robert romantic Rorem Russian SAINT Schubert set Schumann Scot SELECTED READING semi-opera singing SONG COMPOSER POET SOURCE Spanish Steinberg story studied Thomas Thomas D'Urfey trans translated University Verlaine verse William Soutar Wolfgang words writing written wrote Zeus
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