By the author of the critically acclaimed Choral Music in the Twentieth Century, this volume is an indispensable resource for choral conductors, a valuable guide for choral singers and other music lovers, and an essential text for educators and their students. As with his first book, Nick Strimple reviews 100 years of choral music literature, offering a straightforward text that is gratifying and enlightening. Strimple covers repertory by Beet...
A colorful new translation and notes by Frederick Paul Walter spotlight the libretto, lyrics, and stage directions of Wagner's colossal masterpiece, getting the most basic ingredient right: the actual story! It contains gorgeously illustrated with dazzling graphic-novel artwork, plus classic pictures by Arthur Rackham and others.
Mozart was the first composer whose operas have never left the international repertoire, and for many he remains one of the finest vocal composers who ever lived. In a sense, all of his music is vocal music, depending as it does on arresting, singable mel
Ringer sheds new perspectives on Schubert's songs, focusing on their incomparable dramatic power, which often exceeds that of many a full-fledged opera. But Schubert's "stage" was not to be the public theaters of the repressive Metternich regime in Vienna, but the far less censorable "theatre of the mind." Schubert's theatre of song would spring to life in intimate social gatherings of like-minded friends, wherever a singer and a fortepiano we...