Index to Poetry in Music / Edition 1

by Carol June Bradley

Overview

Encompassing both the art song and Lieder traditions, the book includes: comprehensive lists of the compositions of 125 major western composers, identities of the poets who wrote the lyrics, titles used by respective composers with cross references from variant titles used by other composers, cross references from the first lines, publishers of the individual songs, location of individual songs within the collected works of individual composers, and date of composition. With this resource, a reader can find the songs written by a particular composer, who published a specific song, and which composers might have set a particular poem to music. Bradley's guide offers a user-friendly, contemporary index of information for which scholars previously had to search extensively.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415943024
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/14/2003
Pages:	920
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr. Carol June Bradley is a Music Librarian and Professor of Library Science at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction How to use this book Background Information about the Data Collection List of Composers Aubert, Louis Francois Marie, 1877-1968 Auris, Georges, 1899-1983 Balakirev, Milii Alekseevich, 1837-1910 Barber, Samuel, 1910-1981 Bartok, Bela, 1881-1945 Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827 Bennett, William Sterndale, 1816-1875 Berg, Alban, 1885-1935 Berkeley, Lennox, 1903-1989 Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869 Berstein, Leonard, 1918-1990 Bizet, Georges, 1838-1875 Blacher, Boris, 1903-1975 Blitzstein, Marc, 1905-1964 Bloch, Ernest, 1880-1959 Borodin, Aleksandr Porfir'evich, 1833-1887 Boulanger, Lili, 1893-1918 Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897 Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976 Bruckner, Anton, 1824-1896 Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951 Carter, Elliott, 1908- Casella, Alfredo, 1883-1947 Chabrier, Emmanuel, 1841-1894 Chaikovskii, Petr Il'ich, 1840-1893 Chanler, Theodore, 1902-1961 Chausson, Ernest, 1855-1899 Chopin, Fryderyk Franciszek, 1810-1849 Copland, Aaron, 1900-1991 Cornelius, Peter, 1824-1874 Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918 Delibes, Leo, 1836-1891 Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934 Diamond, David, 1915- Duparc, Henri, 1848-1933 Dvorak, Antonin, 1841-1904 Falla, Manuel de, 1876-1946 Faure, Gabriel Urbain, 1845-1924 Franck, Cesar Auguste, 1822-1890 Franz, Robert, 1815-1892 Gideon, Miriam, 1906-1996 Gluck, Christoph Willibald, 1714-1787 Gounod, Charles Francois, 1818-1893 Grieg, Edvard, 1843-1907 Griffes, Charles Tomlinson, 1884-1920 Hahn, Reynaldo, 1875-1947 Harris, Roy, 1898-1979 Heseltine, Philip Arnold, 1894-1930 Hindemith, Paul, 1895-1963 Honegger, Arthur, 1892-1955 Ibert, Jacques, 1890-1962 Indy, Vincent d', 1851-1931 Ireland, John, 1879-1962 Ives, Charles Edward, 1874-1954 Janacek, Leo , 1854-1928 Jensen, Adolf, 1837-1879 Jolivet, Andre, 1905-1974 Kilpinen, Yrjo, 1892-1959 Koechlin, Charles, 1867-1950 Krenek, Ernst, 1900-1991 Lalo, Edouard, 1823-1892 Lassen, Eduard, 1830-1904 Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886 Loeffler, Charles Martin, 1861-1935 Loewe, Karl, 1796-1869 Luening, Otto, 1900-1996 MacDowell, Edward Alexander, 1861-1908 Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911 Malipiero, Gian Francesco, 1882-1973 Martinu, Bohuslav, 1890-1959 Massenet, Jules, 1842-1912 Medtner, Nikolai Karlovich, 1880-1951 Mendelssohn-Bartholody, Felix, 1809-1847 Massiaen, Olivier, 1908-1992 Milhaud, Darius, 1892-1974 Mompou, Federico, 1893-1987 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791 Musorgskii, Modest Petrovich, 1839-1881 Nielson, Carl, 1865-1931 Pfitzner, Hans, 1869-1949 Pijper, Willem, 1894-1947 Pizzetti, Ildebrano, 1880-1968 Poulenc, Francis, 1899-1963 Prokofiev, Sergei Sergeevich, 1891-1953 Quilter, Roger, 1877-1953 Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 1873-1943 Ravel, Maurice, 1875-1937 Reger, Max, 1873-1916 Respighi, Ottorino, 18

Editorial Reviews

"Bradley's guide is truly international in scope, providing details about songs by important composers in most Western languages. Essential. Purchase by major academic and public music libraries is strongly urged." — Choice
"There are a few half-hearted attempts available to identify particular texts, some with relation to a single composer's works, but nothing on the scale of this index." — Library Journal
"The material itself is organized in a single alphabetical sequence that uses typeface and quote marks to distinguish the different kinds of information—composer, poet, title, and first line—which makes it easy to use. This admirable accomplishment is a welcome addition to the reference shelf, for which performers, teachers, scholars, and students will be immensely grateful." — Library Journal
"Bradley has put together an invaluable reference tool about poetry in music. Meticulous attention to detail is evident on every level, beginning with a clear explanation of how the 125 composers were chosen. Highly recommended." — Library Journal
"This book will be a boon to scholars and students of the art song, to singers, accompanists and coaches. It will also, arguably, be a book used by literary scholars and students. It will provide in a handy, modern publication in convenient form the kind of information scholars have had heretofore to dig out of all of the out-of-the-way sources that the author herself has laboriously consulted over the years. It will make it much easier for performers to locate music they wish to program. There is no comparable reference tool." — Rufus Hallmark, Music Department Chair, Rutgers University

From the Publisher

Bradley, a music librarian at SUNY at Buffalo, has put together an invaluable reference tool about poetry in music. A 40-year project that resulted from a reference question that the author couldn't answer, it contains detailed information about Western art songs and their composers, publishers, and dates of composition, cross-referenced to other composers who set the same text even when the title is not identical. Meticulous attention to detail is evident on every level, beginning with a clear explanation of how the 125 composers were chosen. Bradley collated the major composers found in Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 5th ed., James Hall's The Art Song, and Philip R. Miller's The Ring of Words, then studied the song holdings of several major American libraries. Ranging from Louis Fran ois Marie Aubert to Karl Friedrich Zelter, the composers are thus all "recognized for their song production and the quality of the texts they set." While folk songs and those with biblical texts are included, sketches and incomplete works are not. The material itself is organized in a single alphabetical sequence that uses typeface and quote marks to distinguish the different kinds of information-composer, poet, title, and first line-which makes it easy to use. This admirable accomplishment is a welcome addition to the reference shelf, for which performers, teachers, scholars, and students will be immensely grateful. There are a few half-hearted attempts available to identify particular texts, some with relation to a single composer's works, but nothing on the scale of this index. Highly recommended.-Timothy J. McGee, Hastings, Ont. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

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