Researching the Song:A LexiconOxford University Press, USA, 22 dec. 2005 - 528 sidor 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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... Russian song 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 ...
... Russian song 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 ...
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... Russian, Spanish, South American, Greek, Finnish, Scandinavian, and both Ameri- can and British English repertoires. Also included are brief biographies of poets, lists of composers who set each poet's work, and frequently the specific ...
... Russian, Spanish, South American, Greek, Finnish, Scandinavian, and both Ameri- can and British English repertoires. Also included are brief biographies of poets, lists of composers who set each poet's work, and frequently the specific ...
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... Russian names often have more than one transliteration of the surname , due to the difference between the Russian and English alphabets . A Last Word Some twenty years ago our friend and colleague the late Stanley Sonntag originally ...
... Russian names often have more than one transliteration of the surname , due to the difference between the Russian and English alphabets . A Last Word Some twenty years ago our friend and colleague the late Stanley Sonntag originally ...
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... Russian poetry , whose leaders were Nikolai Gumilyov and Sergei Gorodetsky . Other members included Anna * Akhmatova and Osip Man- delstam . Their group was called the Poets ' Guild , organized in . Although born of symbolism ...
... Russian poetry , whose leaders were Nikolai Gumilyov and Sergei Gorodetsky . Other members included Anna * Akhmatova and Osip Man- delstam . Their group was called the Poets ' Guild , organized in . Although born of symbolism ...
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... Russian poet . Akhmatova is one of the two greatest women poets in the history of Russian poetry , and one of three great * Acmeists . Daughter of a merchant marine engineer , she spent her child- hood in * Tsarskoye Selo , the village ...
... Russian poet . Akhmatova is one of the two greatest women poets in the history of Russian poetry , and one of three great * Acmeists . Daughter of a merchant marine engineer , she spent her child- hood in * Tsarskoye Selo , the village ...
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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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