Canciones de España - (Canciones de Espana: Songs Of Nineteenth-Century Spain) by Suzanne Rhodes Draayer (Paperback)

About the Book

Volume 3 of Canciones de España: 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 vo...

Book Synopsis

Volume 3 of Canciones de España: 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.

Review Quotes

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!"

...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.

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 volume clearly sets out, with success, to provide a new standard for its repertoire.

About the Author

Dr. Suzanne Rhodes Draayer, soprano, is professor of voice and related studies at Winona State University. She is the author of A Singer's Guide to the Songs of Joaquín Rodrigo (2003), and Canciones de España: Songs of Nineteenth-Century Spain, Volume I (2003) and Volume 2 (2005; all published by The Scarecrow Press, Inc.).