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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... romantic writers such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge . With a friend , Hugo Wolf once made a walking tour of Upper Styria , Austria , in the course of which they visited the castle of Hoch - Osterwitz . When Wolf heard strange sounds in the ...
... romantic writers such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge . With a friend , Hugo Wolf once made a walking tour of Upper Styria , Austria , in the course of which they visited the castle of Hoch - Osterwitz . When Wolf heard strange sounds in the ...
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... romantic scenery on its banks . ” ( SOURCE : McIntyre , 1995 ) SONG " Afton Water " COMPOSER Benjamin Britten POET Robert Burns AGANOOR POMPILJ , VICTORIA ( – ) : Italian poet of Armenian descent . Her grandparents were ...
... romantic scenery on its banks . ” ( SOURCE : McIntyre , 1995 ) SONG " Afton Water " COMPOSER Benjamin Britten POET Robert Burns AGANOOR POMPILJ , VICTORIA ( – ) : Italian poet of Armenian descent . Her grandparents were ...
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... romantic atmosphere stemming from his concepts of nature in order to show religious thought and moral concepts . The story begins when young Graf Friedrich is attracted to Rosa at their first meeting . She later appears at different ...
... romantic atmosphere stemming from his concepts of nature in order to show religious thought and moral concepts . The story begins when young Graf Friedrich is attracted to Rosa at their first meeting . She later appears at different ...
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... romantic appeal . Anderson experimented with verse drama in his Elizabeth the Queen ( 1930 ) , and used the * Sacco and Vanzetti case in his Winterset ( 1935 ) , blending tough realism and poetic technique . A literary but stoic tone ...
... romantic appeal . Anderson experimented with verse drama in his Elizabeth the Queen ( 1930 ) , and used the * Sacco and Vanzetti case in his Winterset ( 1935 ) , blending tough realism and poetic technique . A literary but stoic tone ...
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... romantic epic by adding history , poeticizing the facts , but still keeping themes of beauty , chivalry , war , and nobility . His writing was not simply solemn ; it had humor and suspense . Ariosto's other works include capitoli ...
... romantic epic by adding history , poeticizing the facts , but still keeping themes of beauty , chivalry , war , and nobility . His writing was not simply solemn ; it had humor and suspense . Ariosto's other works include capitoli ...
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