
The Concert Song Companion
A Guide to the Classical Repertoire
Charles Osborne(Author)
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 26. November 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
285 pages
978-1-4757-0051-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
1 s/w Abbildung
285 p. 1 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
366 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4757-0051-0 (9781475700510)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4757-0049-7
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Content
I The German Language.- II France.- III Russia, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe.- IV Italy, Spain and the rest of Europe.- V The English Language.- Epilogue.- Index of composers and poets.- Index of titles and first lines.