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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... literature and pointed the way to Prince Mirsky's invaluable volume, containing first-hand infor- mation about the poets—our appreciation. Thanks to the excellent libraries of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, where much of ...
... literature and pointed the way to Prince Mirsky's invaluable volume, containing first-hand infor- mation about the poets—our appreciation. Thanks to the excellent libraries of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, where much of ...
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... literature , he soon adopted a style in which he imitated with great virtuosity the elaborate verse forms of sixteenth- and seventeenth - century Spanish poetry , similar to the poetry of his friend * García Lorca . Alberti then moved ...
... literature , he soon adopted a style in which he imitated with great virtuosity the elaborate verse forms of sixteenth- and seventeenth - century Spanish poetry , similar to the poetry of his friend * García Lorca . Alberti then moved ...
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... Literature , 1932. ( SOURCE : Kunitz , Haycraft , 1942 ) AMADIS : the love - child of Perion , king of Wales , and Elizena , princess of Brit- tany . At birth Amadis was cast away in a box on a river , rescued , and then raised in ...
... Literature , 1932. ( SOURCE : Kunitz , Haycraft , 1942 ) AMADIS : the love - child of Perion , king of Wales , and Elizena , princess of Brit- tany . At birth Amadis was cast away in a box on a river , rescued , and then raised in ...
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... literature , inspiring other works ( Lully : Amadis ; Handel : Amadigi ; Krenek : Der neue Amadis ) . The Portuguese originals were written in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries , and the next ver- sion ( ) was written by a ...
... literature , inspiring other works ( Lully : Amadis ; Handel : Amadigi ; Krenek : Der neue Amadis ) . The Portuguese originals were written in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries , and the next ver- sion ( ) was written by a ...
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... Literature , . ARES : the Greek god of war to whom Mars ( Roman ) corresponded . Ares was the son of Zeus and Hera . According to Homer , he had inherited his mother's fierce temper , hence his delight in battles and bloodshed ...
... Literature , . ARES : the Greek god of war to whom Mars ( Roman ) corresponded . Ares was the son of Zeus and Hera . According to Homer , he had inherited his mother's fierce temper , hence his delight in battles and bloodshed ...
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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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