Making words sing : nineteenth- and twentieth-century song /

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What makes a classical song a song? In a wideranging discussion, covering such contrasting composers as Brahms and Berberian, Schubert and Kurtág, Jonathan Dunsby considers the nature of vocality in songs of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dunsby, Jonathan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge, 2004.
Subjects:
1800-1999
Songs > Analysis, appreciation.
Songs > 19th century > History and criticism.
Songs > 20th century > History and criticism.
Chansons > Analyse et appréciation.
Chansons > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Chansons > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
MUSIC > Printed Music > General.
Songs.
Liederen.
Analyse (algemeen)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • An introduction with no words, with intended words, and untheory
  • A love song : Brahms's 'Von ewiger Liebe'
  • Boundless opulence : postscripts on Schoenberg's premonition
  • Interlude on peace, laws, flowers, and men flying
  • To Amherst via Vienna
  • By way of brief conclusion.

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