A French Song Companion
- ISBN-10
- 0199249660
- ISBN-13
- 9780199249664
- Category
- Music
- Pages
- 530
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- Oxford : Oxford University Press
- Authors
- Richard Stokes, Graham Johnson
Description
A French Song Companion is an indispensable guide to the modern repertoire and the most comprehensive book of French m�lodie 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 Faur�, 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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