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Author | : Graham Johnson |
Publisher | : Oxford : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 572 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780199249664 |
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A French Song Companion is an indispensable guide to the modern repertoire and the most comprehensive book of French melodie in any language. Noted accompanist Graham Johnson provides repertoire guides to the work of over 150 composers--the majority of them from France but including British, American, German, Spanish, and Italian musicians who have written French vocal music. The book contains major articles on Faure, Duparc, Debussy, Ravel, and Poulenc, as well as essays on Bizet, Chabrier, Gounod, Chausson, Hahn, and Satie, and important reassessments of such composers as Massenet, Koechlin, and Leguerney. The book combines these articles with the complete texts in English of over 700 songs, all translated by Richard Stokes, making it also a treasury of French poetry from the fifteenth through the twentieth centuries. The translations alone will prove invaluable to music lovers and performers; combined with the biographical articles, they become the ideal map for exploring this exciting and diverse repertoire.
Author | : Graham Johnson |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2006-05-08 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0810857499 |
Download The Spanish Song Companion Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Spanish Song Companion is an introduction to the rich heritage of Spanish song, providing the texts of over 300 songs with parallel translations in accurate and readable English.
Author | : Benedict Taylor |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 403 |
Release | : 2021-08-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108475434 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Music and Romanticism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A stimulating new approach to understanding the relationship between music and culture in the long nineteenth century.
Author | : Charles Osborne |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1475700490 |
Download The Concert Song Companion Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
W HAT I H A V E attempted in this book is a survey of song; the kind of song which one finds variously described as 'concert', 'art', or sometimes even 'classical song'. 'Concert song' seems the most useful, certainly the least inexact or misleading, of some descriptions, especially since 'art song' sounds primly off putting, and 'classical song' really ought to be used only to refer to songs written during the classical period, i. e. the 18th century. Concert song clearly means the kind of songs one hears sung at concerts or recitals. Addressing myself to the general music-lover who, though he possesses no special knowledge of the song literature, is never theless interested enough in songs and their singers to attend recitals of Lieder or of songs in various languages, I have naturally confined myself to that period of time in which the vast majority of these songs was composed, though not necessarily only to those composers whose songs have survived to be remembered in recital programmes today. I suppose this to be roughly the three centuries covered by the years 1650-1950, though most of the songs we, as audiences, know and love were composed in the middle of this period, in other words in the 19th century.
Author | : Frits Noske |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : French poetry |
ISBN | : |
Download French Song from Berlioz to Duparc Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Paul Reid |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780719075704 |
Download The Beethoven Song Companion Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is the first full-length, published study of Beethoven's songs. All the composer's songs with piano are included, with full German texts and translations, together with comprehensive notes on the poetry and the music. The inclusion of unfinished songs gives a fascinating insight into Beethoven's compositional methods. An introductory essay considers reasons for the relative neglect of the songs, the significance of Beethoven's choice of texts, his crucial role in the development of German art of song, and specific aspects such as choice of key. It is anticipated that this book, like its predecessor The Schubert Song Companion, will encourage the performance and study of an important but comparatively neglected aspect of the work of the world's most celebrated composer.
Author | : Graham Johnson |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2006-05-08 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1461673690 |
Download The Spanish Song Companion Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book, the first of its kind to be published in English, introduces the reader to the rich heritage of Spanish song. Here in one volume are the texts of over 300 songs with parallel translations in accurate and readable English. The majority are love poems, which form a fascinating anthology of Spanish poetry from the thirteenth to the twentieth century. The introduction by Graham Johnson, who in recent years has done more than anyone to kindle interest in the international song repertoire, traces the history of Spanish song from its beginnings, via the period of the Catholic kings in the fifteenth century, the Golden Age of the sixteenth, through to the remarkable rebirth in the twentieth century. All the songs and cycles frequently heard in recital are gathered here: Albeniz, Falla, Granados, Rodrigo and Obradors are generously represented, as well as Catalan composers such as Montsalvatge and Mompou. The volume is arranged chronologically by composer, and includes notes on all the major poets and composers, a discography, and names and addresses of the music publishers. The Spanish Song Companion is a much-needed volume and will be welcomed by singers, students of Spanish literature, concert-goers and record-collectors throughout the English-speaking world.
Author | : Simon Trezise |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 2015-02-19 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0521877946 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to French Music Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This accessible Companion provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive introduction to French music from the early middle ages to the present.
Author | : Richard D. Sylvester |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2014-04-22 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0253012597 |
Download Rachmaninoff's Complete Songs Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Sergei Rachmaninoff—the last great Russian romantic and arguably the finest pianist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries—wrote 83 songs, which are performed and beloved throughout the world. Like German Lieder and French mélodies, the songs were composed for one singer, accompanied by a piano. In this complete collection, Richard D. Sylvester provides English translations of the songs, along with accurate transliterations of the original texts and detailed commentary. Since Rachmaninoff viewed these "romances" primarily as performances and painstakingly annotated the scores, this volume will be especially valuable for students, scholars, and practitioners of voice and piano.
Author | : James Parsons |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 2004-07 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780521804714 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to the Lied Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Beginning several generations before Schubert, the Lied first appears as domestic entertainment. In the century that follows it becomes one of the primary modes of music-making. By the time German song comes to its presumed conclusion with Richard Strauss's 1948 Vier letzte Lieder, this rich repertoire has moved beyond the home and keyboard accompaniment to the symphony hall. This is a 2004 introductory chronicle of this fascinating genre. In essays by eminent scholars, this Companion places the Lied in its full context - at once musical, literary, and cultural - with chapters devoted to focal composers as well as important issues, such as the way in which the Lied influenced other musical genres, its use as a musical commodity, and issues of performance. The volume is framed by a detailed chronology of German music and poetry from the late 1730s to the present and also contains a comprehensive bibliography.