Researching the Song:A LexiconSingers 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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... beautiful boy , Erwin , who later turns out to be a highly sensual woman , the Gräfin Romana , who commits suicide after being repelled by Friedrich . The story teems with scattered episodes , confused identities , and various ...
... beautiful boy , Erwin , who later turns out to be a highly sensual woman , the Gräfin Romana , who commits suicide after being repelled by Friedrich . The story teems with scattered episodes , confused identities , and various ...
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... beautiful Amalfi Drive is cut from the rugged cliffs along the gulf , extending as far west as Sorrento and east to Salerno . SONG " Night Song at Amalfi ” COMPOSER Wintter Watts POET Sara Teasdale AMALIA : a character in Friedrich von ...
... beautiful Amalfi Drive is cut from the rugged cliffs along the gulf , extending as far west as Sorrento and east to Salerno . SONG " Night Song at Amalfi ” COMPOSER Wintter Watts POET Sara Teasdale AMALIA : a character in Friedrich von ...
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... beautiful than the * Nereids , * Poseidon sent a sea - dragon to destroy the country . The oracle of Ammon ( Amen ) predicted that the land would be saved only if Andromeda were given to the dragon . Cepheus chained her to a rock by the ...
... beautiful than the * Nereids , * Poseidon sent a sea - dragon to destroy the country . The oracle of Ammon ( Amen ) predicted that the land would be saved only if Andromeda were given to the dragon . Cepheus chained her to a rock by the ...
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... beautiful than Hera ( Juno , Rom . ) . Hera then turned her locks into serpents . . ( Rom . ) Anti- gone killed herself to avoid being buried alive for disobeying an edict of Creon's . Schubert's song takes place on a road to Colonos ...
... beautiful than Hera ( Juno , Rom . ) . Hera then turned her locks into serpents . . ( Rom . ) Anti- gone killed herself to avoid being buried alive for disobeying an edict of Creon's . Schubert's song takes place on a road to Colonos ...
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... beautiful young male . He had numerous affairs with nymphs , mortal women , and young men . Apollo's son was * Asclepius , his mother Koronis , a lake nymph . The worid - renowned Apollo type of American spacecraft was named in honor of ...
... beautiful young male . He had numerous affairs with nymphs , mortal women , and young men . Apollo's son was * Asclepius , his mother Koronis , a lake nymph . The worid - renowned Apollo type of American spacecraft was named in honor of ...
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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
References to this book
Singing and Communicating in English: A Singer's Guide to English Diction Kathryn LaBouff Limited preview - 2007 |