9780199249664-0199249660-A French Song Companion

A French Song Companion

ISBN-13: 9780199249664
ISBN-10: 0199249660
Author: Graham Johnson, Richard Stokes
Publication date: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback 568 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780199249664
ISBN-10: 0199249660
Author: Graham Johnson, Richard Stokes
Publication date: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback 568 pages

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A French Song Companion (ISBN-13: 9780199249664 and ISBN-10: 0199249660), written by authors Graham Johnson, Richard Stokes, was published by Oxford University Press in 2002. With an overall rating of 4.5 stars, it's a notable title among other History & Criticism (Music, Linguistics, Words, Language & Grammar ) books. You can easily purchase or rent A French Song Companion (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used History & Criticism books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.62.

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A French Song Companion is an indispensable guide to the modern repertoire and the most comprehensive book of French mélodie in any language. Noted accompanist Graham Johnson provides repertoire guides to the work of over 150 composers--the majority of them from France but including British, American, German, Spanish, and Italian musicians who have written French vocal music. The book contains major articles on Fauré, Duparc, Debussy, Ravel, and Poulenc, as well as essays on Bizet, Chabrier, Gounod, Chausson, Hahn, and Satie, and important reassessments of such composers as Massenet, Koechlin, and Leguerney.

The book combines these articles with the complete texts in English of over 700 songs, all translated by Richard Stokes, making it also a treasury of French poetry from the fifteenth through the twentieth centuries. The translations alone will prove invaluable to music lovers and performers; combined with the biographical articles, they become the ideal map for exploring this exciting and diverse repertoire.

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