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  • Paperback: 491 pages
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; Revised edition (November 1, 1970)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0393005364
  • ISBN-13: 978-0393005363
  • Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.1 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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We used this book when I studied voice in College. It was a great overview of the development of art songs. If you are really interested in classical song this is a great reference.

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The service was excellent! It came timely enough for when I needed the book for class. Thank you!
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THE history of song is obviously as old as the history of mankind, but unfortunately we have to depend on musical notation to decipher the oldest known songs. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
polyphonic songs, duple time, peasant music, lute tablature, solo song, melodic idiom, duple rhythms, vocal line, melodic gift, triple metre, rhythmic modes, mode melody, earliest songs, early songs, piano part, initial repeat, lyrical songs, medium voice, younger composers, separate songs
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, The Musical Quarterly, Vaughan Williams, New Oxford History of Music, Buenos Aires, Latin America, Victor Hugo, Ars Nova, Richard Strauss, Aleksey Tolstoy, Civil War, New England, The Beggar's Opera, Guillaume de Machaut, Annales Musicologiques, Benjamin Britten, Garcia Lorca, Journal of the American Musicological Society, Michael Arne, Musica Disciplina, Rafael Alberti, Carmina Burana, Chapel Royal, Daniel Purcell, Dragan Plamenac
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