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Making Words Sing

Hardcover • 2004 • English

Making Words Sing

By Jonathan Dunsby

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About the book

What makes a classical song a song? In a wideranging discussion, covering such contrasting composers as Brahms and Berberian, Schubert and Kurtág, 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 subjected to close scrutiny against the backdrop of ‘new musicological’ thinking and music-theoretical orthodoxies. The reader is thus offered the best insights available wit...Show more

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9780521836616

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published year

2004

Language

English

Original title

Making Words Sing

Format

Hardcover

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