Index to Poetry in Music
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| Title: | Index to Poetry in Music |
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| Description: | Encompassing both the art song and Lieder traditions, the book includes: comprehensive lists of the compositions of 125 major western composers, identities of the poets who wrote the lyrics, titles used by respective composers with cross references from variant titles used by other composers, cross references from the first lines, publishers of the individual songs, location of individual songs within the collected works of individual composers, and date of composition. With this resource, a reader can find the songs written by a particular composer, who published a specific song, and which composers might have set a particular poem to music. Bradley's guide offers a user-friendly, contemporary index of information for which scholars previously had to search extensively. |
| Authors: | Carol June Bradley |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Poetry--Musical settings--Indexes, Songs--Indexes, Poetry--Indexes |
| Categories: | REFERENCE / Bibliographies & Indexes, MUSIC / Reference |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Encompassing both the art song and Lieder traditions, the book includes: comprehensive lists of the compositions of 125 major western composers, identities of the poets who wrote the lyrics, titles used by respective composers with cross references from variant titles used by other composers, cross references from the first lines, publishers of the individual songs, location of individual songs within the collected works of individual composers, and date of composition. With this resource, a reader can find the songs written by a particular composer, who published a specific song, and which composers might have set a particular poem to music. Bradley's guide offers a user-friendly, contemporary index of information for which scholars previously had to search extensively. |
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| ISBN: | 9780415943024 9781135381202 9781135381271 9780203954300 |
