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Researching the Song: A Lexicon 1st Edition
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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.
- ISBN-100195373103
- ISBN-13978-0195373103
- Edition1st
- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication dateOctober 22, 2008
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions9.8 x 6.9 x 1.4 inches
- Print length507 pages
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Wilbur Watkin Lewis is a music educator with many years of experience as a performer. He maintains a private studio and teaches General and Vocal Music in the Elizabeth, NJ Public School system and has taught at Rutgers-Newark University and Bergen Community College. He began his study of art songs twenty-five years ago while a student of Shirlee Emmons and Stanley Sonntag.
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- Publisher : Oxford University Press; 1st edition (October 22, 2008)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 507 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0195373103
- ISBN-13 : 978-0195373103
- Item Weight : 2.03 pounds
- Dimensions : 9.8 x 6.9 x 1.4 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,590,847 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2,839 in Vocal & Singing
- #2,847 in Music (Books)
- #3,475 in Music Encyclopedias
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