The Book of Lieder

The Book of Lieder
Title The Book of Lieder PDF eBook
Author Ian Bostridge
Publisher Faber & Faber
Pages 1247
Release 2011-03-03
Genre Music
ISBN 0571260918

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This unique volume contains, in parallel translation, a thousand of the most frequently performed Lieder, both piano-accompanied and orchestral. Composers are arranged alphabetically, with their songs appearing under poet in chronological order of composition - thus allowing the reader to engage in depth with a particular poet and at the same time to follow the composer's development. Richard Stokes, whose work in this field is already widely acclaimed, provides illuminating short essays on each of the fifty composers' approach to Lieder composition, as well as well as notes on all the poets who inspired the songs.The volume is notable for the accuracy and elegance of its translations, and for its fidelity to the German verse: every care has been taken to print the words of the sung text, while adhering to the versification and punctuation of the original poem.Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann, Goethe, Heine and Schiller are among the highlights of a book which illuminates one of the great musical traditions and will be an indispensable handbook for every music lover.

Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann
Title Robert Schumann PDF eBook
Author Jon W. Finson
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 342
Release 2007
Genre Music
ISBN 9780674026292

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Arguably no other 19th-century German composer was as literate or as finely attuned to setting verse as Robert Schumann. Finson challenges assumptions about Schumann’s Lieder, engaging traditionally held interpretations. Arranged in part thematically, rather than by strict compositional chronology, this book speaks to the heart of Schumann’s music.

Heine's Book of Songs

Heine's Book of Songs
Title Heine's Book of Songs PDF eBook
Author Heinrich Heine
Publisher
Pages 270
Release 1871
Genre
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Song

Song
Title Song PDF eBook
Author Carol Kimball
Publisher Hal Leonard Corporation
Pages 603
Release 2006-12-01
Genre Music
ISBN 1617749974

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Carol Kimball's comprehensive survey of art song literature has been the principal one-volume American source on the topic. Now back in print after an absence of several years this newly revised edition includes biographies and discussions of the work of

The Complete Book of Rhymes, Songs, Poems, Fingerplays, and Chants

The Complete Book of Rhymes, Songs, Poems, Fingerplays, and Chants
Title The Complete Book of Rhymes, Songs, Poems, Fingerplays, and Chants PDF eBook
Author Jackie Silberg
Publisher Gryphon House, Inc.
Pages 516
Release 2002
Genre Education
ISBN 9780876592670

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The Complete Book of Rhymes, Songs, Poems, Fingerplays, and Chants gives children a variety of ways to fall in love with rhythm, rhyme, repetition, and structural sequence -- important building blocks for future readers. The 700 selections will help children ages 3 to 6 build a strong foundation in skills such as listening, imagination, coordination, and spatial and body awareness. In this giant book of rhythm and rhyme, you are sure to find your own childhood favorites! Book jacket.

Songs in Motion

Songs in Motion
Title Songs in Motion PDF eBook
Author Yonatan Malin
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 250
Release 2010
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0195340051

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This is an exploratopn of rhythm and meter in the 19th-century German Lied, including songs for voice and piano by Fanny Hensel née Mendelssohn, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, and Hugo Wolf. The Lied, as a genre, is characterised especially by the fusion of poetry and music.

The Penguin Book of English Song

The Penguin Book of English Song
Title The Penguin Book of English Song PDF eBook
Author Richard Stokes
Publisher Penguin UK
Pages 2277
Release 2016-04-07
Genre Poetry
ISBN 0141982551

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The Penguin Book of English Song anthologizes the work of 100 English poets who have inspired a host of different composers (some English, some not) to write vocal music. Each of the chapters, arranged chronologically from Chaucer to Auden, opens with a precis of the poet's life, work and, often, approach to music. Richard Stokes's notes and commentaries constantly illuminate the language and themes of the poems and their settings in unexpected ways. An awareness of how Ben Jonson based his famous poem 'Drinke to me, onely, with thine eyes' on a Greek original, for example, increases our enjoyment of both the poem and the traditional song; knowledge of Thomas Hardy's relationships with women deepens our appreciation of songs by Ireland, Finzi, Britten and others; Charles Dibdin's 'Tom Bowling', played each year at the Last Night of the Proms, takes on a deeper resonance when we know that it was written after the death of his brother Tom, a sea captain struck by lightning in the Indian Ocean. Many composers of different nationalities appear, but the book remains quintessentially British, and includes pieces that have an established place in our national consciousness: 'Rule, Britannia' (James Thomson), 'Abide with me' (Henry Francis Lyte), 'Auld lang syne' (Robert Burns), 'Jerusalem' (William Blake), 'Once in royal David's city' (Mrs C. F. Alexander), and even 'Twinkle, twinkle, little star' (Jane Taylor). The poems are printed in their original versification and spelling, enabling us to trace the development of the English language as the book progresses. The volume presents a huge amount of information about English Song that will enlighten all those who delight in the fusion of words and music. The presence of minor as well as major poets and the unique principle of selection make The Penguin Book of English Song a highly original anthology of English verse.