Making Words Sing: Nineteenth- And Twentieth-Century Song

by Jonathan Dunsby

Book Overview

What makes a classical song a song? Covering such contrasting composers as Brahms and Berberian, Schubert and Kurt?g, Jonathan Dunsby considers the nature of vocality in songs of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The essence and scope of poetic and literary meaning in the Lied tradition is subject to close scrutiny against the backdrop of new musicological thinking and music-theoretical orthodoxies. The reader is thus offered the best insights...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521120462
• ISBN13: 9780521120463
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"