Song Acts: Writings on Words and Music

By Lawrence Kramer

This volume collects twenty of Lawrence Kramer's seminal writings--some significantly revised for republication--on art song (especially Lieder), opera, and word-music relationships. Topics include text-setting, subjectivity, the sublime, mourning, sexuality, decadence, orientalism, the body, Romanticism, modernity, and cultural change.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004342125
• ISBN13: 9789004342125
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.3"