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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... 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 and poets ...
... 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 and poets ...
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... married to Sir Scudamour but is carried off immediately after the wedding by the enchanter Busirane and imprisoned by him.Timias loves her but, being reproved by Belphoebe, leaves her. This refers to the displeasure of Queen Elizabeth ...
... married to Sir Scudamour but is carried off immediately after the wedding by the enchanter Busirane and imprisoned by him.Timias loves her but, being reproved by Belphoebe, leaves her. This refers to the displeasure of Queen Elizabeth ...
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... married the widowed Bach in .Well known as a singer, she continued to hold her position at the court of Anholt-Zerbst when she married. Her salary amounted to half that of her husband's, with whom she studied both the clavichord ...
... married the widowed Bach in .Well known as a singer, she continued to hold her position at the court of Anholt-Zerbst when she married. Her salary amounted to half that of her husband's, with whom she studied both the clavichord ...
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... married and cohabited with his mother, he put out his eyes, later going into exile accompanied by his faithful daughter Antigone. . (Rom.) Peleus, one of the most famous heroes of Thessaly, went to Phthia, where he visited Eurytion ...
... married and cohabited with his mother, he put out his eyes, later going into exile accompanied by his faithful daughter Antigone. . (Rom.) Peleus, one of the most famous heroes of Thessaly, went to Phthia, where he visited Eurytion ...
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... married her. It is possible that this myth is a version of older tales of sacred bullfights from the pre-Greek era of Cretan history. (SOURCE: Cotterell, ) SONG COMPOSER POET . “Arianna ŕ Naxos” Franz Josef Haydn unknown ...
... married her. It is possible that this myth is a version of older tales of sacred bullfights from the pre-Greek era of Cretan history. (SOURCE: Cotterell, ) SONG COMPOSER POET . “Arianna ŕ Naxos” Franz Josef Haydn unknown ...
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References to this book
Singing and Communicating in English: A Singer's Guide to English Diction Kathryn LaBouff Limited preview - 2007 |