French Song Companion by Johnson, Graham ISBN 0198164106
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[edit] French Song Companion
An indispensable guide to French song.
'A French Song Companion' is the most comprehensive book of French 'melodie' in any language. The great accompanist Graham Johnson, a noted authority of song, provides repertoire guides to the work of some 150 composers the majority of them from France, but including British, American, German, Spanish, and Italian musicians who have written French vocal music. There are major articles on such figures as Faure, Duparc, Debussy, Ravel, and Poulenc; substantial articles on Bizet, Chabrier, Gounod, Chausson, Hahn, and Satie; and reassessments of such composers as Massenet, Koechlin, and Leguerney. A host of less celebrated figures who have contributed to the genre take their place in a book which is both informative and entertaining. The biographical articles are supplemented by the song translations of Richard Stokes, some 700 in all, and a veritable treasury of great French poetry from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries. These stand in their own right as indispensable to music lovers, concert-goers, and professional singers and their accompanists. This is a book which not only reflects the repertoire as found in today's concert halls, but also encourages performers and armchair enthusiasts to explore the neglected highways and biways of an endlessly fascinating and highly civilised body of music.
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[edit] Title
French Song Companion
[edit] Author
Johnson, Graham
[edit] ISBN
0198164106
[edit] Published
15/06/2000
[edit] Publisher
Oxford University Press
[edit] Binding
HARDBACK
[edit] Retail Price
45 (GBP)
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45 (GBP)
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