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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... father was seventy years old . Terah moved his entire family , including Abram and his childless wife Sarai , to the ... Father and son set off to finish the journey alone . Isaac said to his father that he saw nothing to be the ...
... father was seventy years old . Terah moved his entire family , including Abram and his childless wife Sarai , to the ... Father and son set off to finish the journey alone . Isaac said to his father that he saw nothing to be the ...
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... father of * Theseus . When Theseus returned to Athens , he had restored Aegaeus to his throne . After sail- ing to Crete to deliver Athens from the Minoan tribute , Theseus had promised his father that he would hoist white sails to ...
... father of * Theseus . When Theseus returned to Athens , he had restored Aegaeus to his throne . After sail- ing to Crete to deliver Athens from the Minoan tribute , Theseus had promised his father that he would hoist white sails to ...
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... father married a descendant of a noble Milanese family and settled in Padova , where Victoria was born . Educated by outstanding tutors , including poet / translator Andrea Maffei , she read the classics and contemporary Italian authors ...
... father married a descendant of a noble Milanese family and settled in Padova , where Victoria was born . Educated by outstanding tutors , including poet / translator Andrea Maffei , she read the classics and contemporary Italian authors ...
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... father , the Sultan of China , disposes of the lamp and transports the palace to Africa . Aladdin eventually recovers the lamp and returns to China and his palace with his wife to live happily for many years . ( SOURCE : Cooper , 1992 ) ...
... father , the Sultan of China , disposes of the lamp and transports the palace to Africa . Aladdin eventually recovers the lamp and returns to China and his palace with his wife to live happily for many years . ( SOURCE : Cooper , 1992 ) ...
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... father being a wanderer , much of Charles's childhood was spent in New York and New Orleans . When his father died ( ) , Aldrich had to give up Harvard and go to work as a junior literary critic of a newspaper . During the ...
... father being a wanderer , much of Charles's childhood was spent in New York and New Orleans . When his father died ( ) , Aldrich had to give up Harvard and go to work as a junior literary critic of a newspaper . During the ...
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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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Singing and Communicating in English: A Singer's Guide to English Diction Kathryn LaBouff Limited preview - 2007 |