A French Song Companion
A French Song Companion

Author: Graham Johnson

Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 572

ISBN-13: 9780199249664

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A French Song Companion is an indispensable guide to the modern repertoire and the most comprehensive book of French melodie in any language. Noted accompanist Graham Johnson provides repertoire guides to the work of over 150 composers--the majority of them from France but including British, American, German, Spanish, and Italian musicians who have written French vocal music. The book contains major articles on Faure, Duparc, Debussy, Ravel, and Poulenc, as well as essays on Bizet, Chabrier, Gounod, Chausson, Hahn, and Satie, and important reassessments of such composers as Massenet, Koechlin, and Leguerney. The book combines these articles with the complete texts in English of over 700 songs, all translated by Richard Stokes, making it also a treasury of French poetry from the fifteenth through the twentieth centuries. The translations alone will prove invaluable to music lovers and performers; combined with the biographical articles, they become the ideal map for exploring this exciting and diverse repertoire.

The Cambridge Companion to the Lied
The Cambridge Companion to the Lied

Author: James Parsons

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-07

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 9780521804714

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Beginning several generations before Schubert, the Lied first appears as domestic entertainment. In the century that follows it becomes one of the primary modes of music-making. By the time German song comes to its presumed conclusion with Richard Strauss's 1948 Vier letzte Lieder, this rich repertoire has moved beyond the home and keyboard accompaniment to the symphony hall. This is a 2004 introductory chronicle of this fascinating genre. In essays by eminent scholars, this Companion places the Lied in its full context - at once musical, literary, and cultural - with chapters devoted to focal composers as well as important issues, such as the way in which the Lied influenced other musical genres, its use as a musical commodity, and issues of performance. The volume is framed by a detailed chronology of German music and poetry from the late 1730s to the present and also contains a comprehensive bibliography.

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music

Author: Theodore Gracyk

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2011-02-14

Total Pages: 672

ISBN-13: 1136821880

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The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics, subjects, thinkers and debates in philosophy and music. Essential reading for anyone interested in philosophy, music and musicology.

Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera
Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera

Author: Sarah Kay

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2022-07-15

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 150176389X

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Focusing on songs by the troubadours and trouvères from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries, Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera contends that song is not best analyzed as "words plus music" but rather as a distinctive way of sounding words. Rather than situating them in their immediate period, Sarah Kay fruitfully listens for and traces crosscurrents between medieval French and Occitan songs and both earlier poetry and much later opera. Reflecting on a song's songlike quality—as, for example, the sound of light in the dawn sky, as breathed by beasts, as sirenlike in its perils—Kay reimagines the diversity of songs from this period, which include inset lyrics in medieval French narratives and the works of Guillaume de Machaut, as works that are as much desired and imagined as they are actually sung and heard. Kay understands song in terms of breath, the constellations, the animal soul, and life itself. Her method also draws inspiration from opera, especially those that inventively recreate medieval song, arguing for a perspective on the manuscripts that transmit medieval song as instances of multimedia, quasi-operatic performances. Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera features a companion website (cornellpress.manifoldapp.org/projects/medieval-song) hosting twenty-four audio or video recordings, realized by professional musicians specializing in early music, of pieces discussed in the book, together with performance scores, performance reflections, and translations of all recorded texts. These audiovisual materials represent an extension in practice of the research aims of the book—to better understand the sung dimension of medieval song.

The Song Companion to the Scriptures (Classic Reprint)
The Song Companion to the Scriptures (Classic Reprint)

Author: George Campbell Morgan

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-01-10

Total Pages: 600

ISBN-13: 9781334962509

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Excerpt from The Song Companion to the Scriptures To meet that need the song companion TO the scriptures is issued. While it does not seek to enter into competition with the denominational Hymnals and Hymn-books, it has been so arranged as to make it in every way suitable for the regular services of Christian worship. There are many Christian congregations gathering together for worship, unaffiliated with any of the great Denominations, especially in Mission work, whose needs are not perfectly met by a Hymn-book which is purely evangelistic, and who would object to use any Hymnal which bears a denominational stamp. Such, we believe, will find in this collection one admirably adapted to their requirements. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Sunday Morning Blended Worship Companion
Sunday Morning Blended Worship Companion

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Published: 2016-03

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781470627539

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Sunday Morning Blended Worship Companion presents 33 medleys that combine a hymn or traditional sacred song with a contemporary favorite. It includes arrangements at the late intermediate to early advanced levels for the church pianist who needs material for preludes, offertories, postludes, and other service music. Titles: Amazing Grace with Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) * Be Thou My Vision with Center * Blessed Be Your Name with Blessed Be the Name * Breathe On Me, Breath of God with Breathe * Cornerstone with The Solid Rock * Everlasting God with A Mighty Fortress Is Our God * Firm Foundation with The Church's One Foundation * Forever Reign with Jesus Shall Reign * Glorious Day (Living He Loved Me) with One Day * Glory to God Forever with To God Be the Glory * God of Wonders with For the Beauty of the Earth * The Heart of Worship with Nothing But the Blood * Holy Is the Lord with Crown Him with Many Crowns * Holy Spirit with Spirit of God, Descend Upon My Heart * Hosanna (Praise Is Rising) with Praise to the Lord, the Almighty * How Can I Keep from Singing with Praise Him! Praise Him! * How Great Thou Art with How Great Is Our God * I Exalt Thee with I Surrender All * I Need Thee Every Hour with Lord, I Need You * I Will Rise with My Savior First of All * It Is Well with It Is Well with My Soul * Jesus Paid It All with Jesus Paid It All (Oh Praise the One) * Mighty to Save with Arise, My Soul, Arise * My Faith Has Found a Resting Place with Enough * No, Not One with No, Not One! * O Praise Him (All This for a King) with Rejoice, the Lord Is King * Oceans (Where Feet May Fail) with 'Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus * One Thing Remains (Your Love Never Fails) with Jesus Never Fails * Our God with How Firm a Foundation * Revelation Song with Holy, Ho