The Song Is Ended: Songwriters and American Music, 1900-1950

by William G. Hyland

"Embraceable You." "Someone to Watch Over Me." "Alexander's Ragtime Band." "My Funny Valentine." "White Christmas." Irving Berlin once wrote a song entitled "The Song is Ended, But the Melody Lingers On," and surely the title is a perfect epitaph for an incomparable era of American songwriting that endowed us with so many of our most beloved ballads and rousing showstoppers.

The Song is Ended is the story of the Golden Age of American popular...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195086112
• ISBN13: 9780195086119
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Excellent read,confusing cover...

Am I the only one who noticed that this book have excatly the same cover (and the subject) as the book "They're playing our song" by Max Wilk? Both books are excellent and give insight in early 20.century pop music,share basically same anecdotes and are based on life & works of music masters who shaped Broadway.