American Art Song and American Poetry, Second Edition

by Ruth C. Friedberg and Robin Fisher

Published 50 years after the last major treatment of American art song, the first edition of the three-volume American Art Song and American Poetry was the first work to fully consider the musical settings of American poetry. Ruth Friedberg's monumental study was undertaken as a partial remedy to examine American song, from Edward Macdowell up through 1980. In the first edition, Friedberg focused on the interrelationship between the composer and the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810881748
• ISBN13: 9780810881747
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Length: 438 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.6" x 11.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher