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Title:American popular song
the great innovators, 1900-1950
From: Alec Wilder ; edited and with a new introduction and additional chapter by Robert Rawlins
Person: Wilder, Alec
1907-1980
Verfasser
aut
Rawlins, Robert
ca. 20./21. Jh.
Main Authors: Wilder, Alec 1907-1980 (Author), Rawlins, Robert ca. 20./21. Jh (Author, Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Oxford University Press 2022
Edition:Third edition, 50th anniversary edition
Series:Oxford scholarship online
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190939946.001.0001
https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190939946.001.0001
Summary:Composer Alec Wilder's 'American Popular Song' is widely recognized as the definitive book on American popular song. In this volume, which achieved immediate praise and recognition upon its publication, Wilder discusses some 800 songs from the American Songbook, offering a composer's insight, accessible music analysis, as well has his strong personal biases. Nearly 50 years later, this classic study has received a much-needed revision. While leaving Wilder's colorful prose and brazen opinions intact, language, style, and musical nomenclature have been updated to reflect current usage. The musical examples mostly remain, but piano score notation has been replaced with lead-sheet notation: melody, chords, and lyrics. Rhythmic notation has also been adjusted to follow present-day norms. Additionally, a final chapter has been added, which includes more than 50 songs that were not in the original.
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Also issued in print: 2022
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 564 Seiten) Illustrationen, Notenbeispiele
ISBN:9780190053024
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780190939946.001.0001