The Art Songs of Louise Talma

• Author(s): Kendra Preston Leonard,
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Pages: 302
• ISBN_10: 1351782177
  ISBN_13: 9781351782173
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Art / General , Music / General , Music / History & Criticism , Music / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal , Reference / Bibliographies & Indexes , Social Science / Popular Culture ,

Description:... Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Musical Examples -- Illustrations -- Foreword: From the Series Editor -- Preface: From the Author -- 1 Reading Talma's Songs -- A Brief Overview of Talma's Life -- Talma's Compositional Language -- Appropriate Research Methodologies -- Concerning This Volume -- 2 Songs of Mourning and Love -- "Invocation to the Rain" (1925) -- "On the Surface of Things" (1926-1927) -- "When the Storm Breaks" (1927-1928) -- "Song in the Songless" (1928) -- Five Sonnets from the Portuguese (1934) -- "XXI. Say Over Again" (1934) -- "VII. The Face of All the World Is Changed" (1934) -- "XXII. When Our Two Souls Stand Up" (1934) -- "I. I Thought Once How Theocritus Had Sung" (1934) -- "XXXIII. Yes, Call Me by My Pet Name!" (1934) -- Vocal Ranges in the Early Songs -- 3 Farewell to Youth -- Terre de France (1945) -- "Mère, voici vos fils" (1943) -- "Sonnet" (1945) -- "Ballade" (1945) -- "Ode" (1945) -- "Adieux à la Meuse" (1945) -- "Letter to St. Peter" (1945) -- Vocal Range -- 4 A Haunted Psyche -- Seven Songs (1986) -- "One Need Not Be a Chamber to Be Haunted" (1941) -- "Rain Song" (1973) -- "Glory Be to God for Dappled Things" (1946) -- "Spring and Fall: To a Young Child" (1946) -- "Sonnet: Carrion Comfort" (1950) -- "Sonnet: I Wake and Feel the Fell of the Dark" (1946) -- "Leap before You Look" (1945) -- 5 Metaphors in Music -- Infanta Marina (1988) -- "Infanta Marina" (1988) -- "The Brave Man" (1988) -- "Domination of Black" (1988) -- "Ploughing on Sunday" (1988) -- "Lunar Paraphrase" (1988) -- "Hibiscus on the Sleeping Shores" (1988) -- "A Load of Sugar-cane" (1988) -- "Re-statement of Romance" (1990) -- "The Pleasures of Merely Circulating" (1990) -- "Finis" (1993) -- Bibliography: Cited Sources and Suggested Readings -- Note Concerning the Appendices