Jonathan Dunsby

Making Words Sing

Nineteenth- And Twentieth-Century Song

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Produktbeschreibung

In a wide-ranging discussion, Jonathan Dunsby considers the nature of vocality in songs of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 248g
• ISBN-13: 9780521120463
• ISBN-10: 0521120462
• Artikelnr.: 27008048

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Dunsby is Professor of Music at The University of Reading. He is the founding editor of the journal Music Analysis, and author of numerous articles on music of the last two centuries. His books include Music Analysis in Theory and Practice, co-authored with Arnold Whittall, and Performing Music: Shared Concerns.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. An introduction with no words, with intended words, and untheory
2. A love song: Brahms's Von ewiger Liebe
3. Boundless opulence: postscripts on Schoenberg's Premonition
4. Interlude on peace, laws, flowers, and men flying
5. To Amherst via Vienna
6. By way of brief conclusion
Bibliography
Index.