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Meister, Barbara, 1932-

An introduction to the art song / by Barbara Meister.

First edition.

New York : Taplinger Publishing Company, 1980.

224 pages ; 22 cm

This book offers a quick but thorough tour of the art song and its major practitioners, from the Florentine musicians of the 17th century to contemporary composers like Ned Rorem and John Musto.

Songs -- History and criticism.

"A Crescendo book."

Includes index.

Early Italian songs -- Henry Purcell -- Georg Friedrich Handel and Johann Sebastian Bach -- Franz Joseph Haydn -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Ludwig van Beethoven -- Franz Schubert -- Robert Schumann -- Felix Mendelssohn -- Johannes Brahms -- Hugo Wolf -- Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss -- Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg -- Hector Berlioz, Charles Gounod, César Franck and Georges Bizet -- Gabriel Fauré -- Ernest Chausson and Henri Duparc -- Claude Debussy -- Maurice Ravel, Erik Satie, Darius Milhaud, and Francis Poulenc -- Nationalism, part I : The Russians -- Nationalism, part II : Spain, Norway, Bohemia, Finland, and Denmark -- Contemporary England and the U.S.A. --

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