German Song Onstage: Lieder Performance in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries by Loges, Natasha; Tunbridge, Laura - 2020

Indiana University Press, 2020-05-05. Paperback. Used: Good.

Paperback / softback. New. A singer in an evening dress, a grand piano. A modest-sized audience, mostly well-dressed and silver-haired, equipped with translation booklets. A program consisting entirely of songs by one or two composers. This is the way of the Lieder recital these days. While it might seem that this style of performance is a long-standing tradition, German Song Onstage demonstrates that it is not. For much of the 19th century, the songs of Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms were heard in the home, salon, and, no less significantly, on the concert platform alongside orchestral and choral works. A dedicated program was rare, a dedicated audience even more so. The Lied was a genre with both more private and more public associations than is commonly recalled. The contributors to this volume explore a broad range of venues, singers, and audiences in distinct places and time periods-including the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, and Germany-from the mid-19th century through… Read More

Indiana Univ Pr, 2020. Paperback. New. 292 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches.

Paperback / softback. New.

Indiana Univ Pr, 2020. Paperback. New. 292 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches.

INDIANA UNIV PR. New. Special order direct from the distributor

Indiana University Press. Paperback. New. 8x5x0. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing