Scandinavian Song - by Anna Hersey (Hardcover)

About the Book

An extensive survey of available music, sample IPA transcriptions and translations, as well as a website link devoted to demonstrating phonemes unfamiliar to native English speakers, make this book an invaluable resource for students and professors in North American college, u...

Book Synopsis

An extensive survey of available music, sample IPA transcriptions and translations, as well as a website link devoted to demonstrating phonemes unfamiliar to native English speakers, make this book an invaluable resource for students and professors in North American college, university, and conservatory voice programs.

Review Quotes

Anna Hersey's Scandinavian Song is a welcome addition to studies on Scandinavian music, as well as Scandinavian literature. It should be added to the collection of every music library whose patrons include vocalists. Although not specifically a musicological text, it also contains enough historical and analytical information to serve as a starting point for further research into the field of Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish art song. Most importantly, it helps to shed much-needed light on the vast hoard of Scandinavian art songs, hopefully leading to more frequent performances of romanser and romancer in North American voice recitals.

About the Author

Anna Hersey is assistant professor University of Wisconsin Oshkosh and editor in chief of VOICEPrints, the peer-reviewed journal of the New York Singing Teachers Association. She is a noted expert on Scandinavian vocal literature and diction, and was a Fulbright Scholar at the Kungliga Musikhögskolan (Royal College of Music) in Stockholm. She also conducted research on Scandinavian repertoire and phonetics at Det Kongelige Danske Musikkonservatorium (Royal Danish Academy of Music) and Københavns Universitet (University of Copenhagen), funded by a post-doctoral fellowship from the American Scandinavian Foundation.