Song Acts Writings on Words and Music

Lawrence Kramer, "Song Acts: Writings on Words and Music"
English | ISBN: 9004342125 | 2017 | 484 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This volume collects twenty of Lawrence Kramer’s seminal writings-some significantly revised for republication-on art song (especially Lieder), opera, and word-music relationships. Topics include text-setting, subjectivity, the sublime, mourning, sexuality, decadence, orientalism, the body, Romanticism, modernity, and cultural change.