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Collected Songs - Musical Settings from Song Cycles and Plays

Collected Songs - Musical Settings from Song Cycles and Plays

Franceschina, John

Hardcover

Classical MusicGeneral Songbooks

ISBN13: 9798887717838
Publisher: BearManor Media
Published: Jul 15 2025
Pages: 92
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.25 Width: 8.25 Depth: 11.00
Language: English

This volume of Collected Songs by John Franceschina exhibits an assortment of musical settings, ranging from contemporary art songs to show business tunes, as diverse as the poetry provided by the seven authors represented. French libertine poet and novelist, Baron Jacques d'Adelswärd Fersen (1880-1923) begins the collection with four romantic poems from his L'Hymnaire d'Adonis (1902), a work he styled in the manner of the Marquis de Sade. African-American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) from Dayton, Ohio, follows with three lyrical works rhapsodizing on love, remembrance, and loss. Bawdy poems by the rakish satirist and Restoration wit, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680) offer a more than subtle change of pace before a single lyric each from Dutch dramatist, poet, novelist, and critic, Willem Gerard van Nouhuys (1854-1914) and French symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898) return the collection to a more elegant civility. Songs composed for productions of The Emperor of the Moon, a 1687 farce by Restoration playwright and novelist Aphra Behn (1640-1689) and Love's Labour's Lost, an early romantic comedy by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) round out the collection.

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