Published 50 years after the last major treatment of American art
song, the first edition of the three-volume American Art Song and
American Poetry was the first work to fully consider the musical
settings of American poetry. Ruth Friedberg's monumental study was
undertaken as a partial remedy to examine American song, from
Edward Macdowell up through 1980. In the first edition, Friedberg
focused on the interrelationship between the composer and the poet
and the ways in which this influenced the completed song. Pieces
selected for inclusion had the dual function of recognizing the
importance of contributions to the performing literature as well as
illuminating phases of America's cultural past. In this second
edition, now published in a convenient, one-volume format, Ruth
Friedberg and Robin Fisher have updated the entries on composers
and poets from the first edition and added new individuals to both
categories. New composers appearing in this volume include Florence
Price, Lee Hoiby, Emma Lou Diemer, Helen Greenberg, Flicka Rahn,
Libby Larsen, John Musto, Lori Laitman, Ricky Ian Gordon, and Jake
Heggie. Poets now receiving their first treatment are Ezra Pound,
Emma Lazarus, Dorothy Diemer Hendry, Dorothy Parker, Willa Cather,
Louise Bogan, and William Carlos Williams. As before, musical
examples are liberally employed to illustrate specific approaches
to poetic text-setting and are much more visually accessible due to
present-day digital technology. The new edition of American Art
Song and American Poetry will be a valuable addition to the
collections of scholars, performers, and libraries. It is an ideal
reference work for students and faculty of voice in undergraduate
and graduate courses in American music as well as literature
scholars interested in the interdisciplinary approaches. Singers
and teachers of singing will find in this new edition a vast array
of carefully selected program material for the studio and the
recital hall, along with carefully researched background material
to enable effective performance. Users will find the volume's
extensive bibliography and general index extremely helpful.
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