Canciones de Espaa: Songs of Nineteenth-Century Spain, High Voice [Paperback]

This volume clearly sets out, with success, to provide a new standard for its repertoire.This anthology presents a selection of 31 songs for the high voice by 19th-century Castilian Spanish composers. Each has been phonetically transcribed into the International Phonetic Alphabet and is accompanied by both word-for-word and idiomatic translations. A brief biography of the composer is also supplied. Editor Draayer (voice, Winona State U.) summarizes the main song types employed by Spanish composers of the period in the introduction....this is a splendid edition of much needed new material in the genre of Spanish song and one that should be valuable indeed to teachers and students alike.a volume well worth investigating for lovely songs that will be new to the study and performance repertoire of all singers. To quote and echo Mr. Castel Thank you, Suzanne! Volume 3 of Canciones de Espa?a: Songs of Nineteenth-Century Spain makes available thirty-one songs by eighteen composers and completes the three-volume anthology series. The series is comprised of eighty-three songs by fifty nineteenth-century Spanish composers. This final volume includes appendixes that arrange all the songs by level of difficulty and by gender.With the completion of Volume 3 of Canciones de Espa?a: Songs of Nineteenth-Century Spain, 83 songs by 50 19th-century Spanish composers are now available for performance and study, in both high and low voice editions. This final volume presents 31 newly published canciones by 18 composers such as Jos? Le?n, Antonio Merc? Fondevila, L?zaro N??ez Robres, Antonio Reparaz, Gabriel Rodr?guez, and Joaqu?n Valverde. These songs represent the gems of the repertoire, providing examples of song types typical of the period, including the canci?n andaluza, the canci?n espa?ola, the balada ?rabe, the bolero, the habanera, the canzoneta, and the seguidilla. A number of songs included had previously been available only in manuscript form and long forgotten in the depthlĂB