In Proust’s Songbook, Jennifer Rushworth analyzes and theorizes the presence and role of songs in Marcel Proust’s novel À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time). Instead of focusing on instrumental music and large-scale forms such as symphonies and opera, as is common in Proust musical studies, Rushworth argues for the centrality of songs and lyrics in Proust’s opus. Her work analyzes the ways in which the author inserted songs at key turning points in his novel and how he drew inspiration from contemporary composers and theorists of song. Rushworth presents detailed readings of five moments of song in À la recherche du temps perdu, highlighting the songs’ significance by paying close attention to their lyrics, music, composers, and histories. Rushworth interprets these episodes through theoretical reflections on song and voice, drawing particularly from the works of Reynaldo Hahn and Roland Barthes. She argues that songs in Proust’s novel are connected and resonate with one another across the different volumes yet also shows how song for Proust is a solo, amateur, and intimate affair. In addition, she points to Proust’s juxtapositions of songs with meditations on the notion of “mauvaise musique” (bad music) to demonstrate the existence of a blurred boundary between songs that are popular and songs that are art. According to Rushworth, a song for Proust has a special relation to repetition and memory due to its typical brevity and that song itself becomes a mode of resistance in À la Recherche—especially on the part of characters in the face of family and familial expectations. She also defines the songs in Proust’s novel as songs of farewell—noting that to sing farewell is a means to resist the very parting that is being expressed—and demonstrates how songs, in formal terms, resist the forward impetus of narrative.

URL: https://www.areditions.com/rr/rra/a071.html The eight Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867¿1957), anchored in her family¿s history and filled with memories of frontier life, are cornerstone classics in American children¿s literature. Embedded in them are citations to 127 pieces of music--from parlor songs, stage songs, minstrel show songs, patriotic songs, Scottish and Irish songs, hymns and spirituals, to fiddle tunes, singing school songs, play party songs, folk songs, broadside ballads, catches and rounds. No books in American literature of comparable standing and popularity feature America¿s vernacular music so centrally, assign it such a major narrative role, and index it in such rich abundance. This edition is a reconstruction of "the family songbook," based on the music referenced in Wilder¿s books. Although no such object ever existed, her representations of music-making have likely informed the imaginations of more Americans than many a paper-and-bindings anthology, for what millions of readers have come to know about America¿s musical heritage is what they learned from the Little House books¿the titles and lyrics to songs; how songs and tunes functioned; where they were heard; what they meant; the importance of music to individuals, families, and communities. Wilder¿s references and her evocative images of music-making thus form the basis of understanding about "American music" to many readers. The Ingalls Wilder Family Songbook is an effort to give fresh voice and sound to the music inscribed in these great books and new appreciation about how music functioned during a place and time important in American history and mythology.

The Big Nursery Rhyme Songbook is a beautiful and lovingly-crafted, full-colour illustrated collection of famous nursery rhymes, fairy stories and poems. These stories, songs and rhymes perfectly capture the magic and wonder of childhood, destined to entertain your little one for hours and hours over years and years. Whether its reading a story at bed time or singing songs during the day. Each song is given with full lyrics, melody line piano accompaniment. The book includes: Poems: - If You See a Fairy Ring - Monday’s Child is Fair of Face - Go to Bed Early Stories: - Goldilocks and the Three bears - The Emperor’s New Clothes - Jack and the Beanstalk - Little Red Riding Hood - The Three Little Pigs Music: - Baa Baa Black Sheep - Cock-a-doodle-doo - Doctor Foster - Eensy Weensy Spider - Frere Jacques - Here We Go Looby Loo - Hickory Dickory Dock - Hot Cross Buns - Humpty Dumpty - Jack And Jill - Jack Be Nimble - Little Bo-peep - London Bridge Is Falling Down - Mary Had A Little Lamb - Merrily We Roll Along - Michael Finnegan - Old Macdonald - One Man Went To Mow - One, Two, Buckle My Shoe - Oranges And Lemons - Pat-a-cake - Peter Piper - Polly Put The Kettle On - Pop Goes The Weasel - Ring-A-Ring O'Roses - Row, Row, Row Your Boat - See-Saw, Margery Daw - Sing A Song Of Sixpence - The Barnyard Song - The Grand Old Duke Of York - The Muffin Man - This Old Man - Three Blind Mice - Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book. - Marcel Proust

The life and times of Moony Shapiro, a songwriter who survived 69 years of whatever the 20th century might throw at him. This fictitious songwriter and his music provide an ideal spoof of musical revues.

Evocative in the purest meaning of the word--romantic in the truest sense--Songbook for Haunted Boys and Girls leaves the constraints of the traditional narrative form behind and presents sketches in time and space, moments of life frozen for our senses, snapshots that are not only visual but engage all our senses. This is haiku in prose, and prose at its best. Wayne McNeill's latest book will leave you feeling, with each word, as if you too are living life on The Danforth, sharing wine and song with those who populate this vibrant neighborhood. Some samples: One of the advantages to living above a bakery is the smell of baking bread on summer mornings. Surely there are few more life-affirming fragrances offered in this world. Many a time I've sat out on the fire escape in housecoat and slippers to breathe in such rare­fied air. It's an ancient comfort and one that should by no means be undervalued. Taramousalata versus black olive spread is the only serious philosophical question. * * * * * Look how the streetlights brighten my living room after dark. A few hours before dawn you will note the all-night buses passing by with their cargo of fallen angels. And if you're up and about around six or seven you'll find the boys and girls filling the sidewalk fruit and vegetable stands. This is a village unto itself. Throwaway umbrellas are sold for a dollar each outside the subway station.