| #6119299 in Books | 1992-01-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.30 x.99 x6.22l,.0 | File type: PDF | 210 pages||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| a reference book|By Goggle-Eyed Slewfoot|This book is a catalogue of vocal compositions, and a few instrumental compositions, inspired by the poems and letters of Emily Dickinson. For each composition, the author gives the composer's name, title, publisher, publication date, instrumentation, and number of the poem or poems in the Johnson edition. On some occasions, the author||For the specialist and non-specialist, poet and musician, common reader and listener, Lowenberg has managed to create a book that never ceases to be useful on one level and to charm the user reader on another...Importantly, Lowenberg has invited brief personal
Emily Dickinson's astonishingly original poems, with their keen imagery and highly charged but economically expressed emotion, have inspired numerous composers to set them to music. This book provides a detailed inventory of 1,615 musical settings of Emily Dickinson's texts, by 276 composers, written between 1896 and 1991.
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Musicians Wrestle Everywhere | Carlton Lowenberg. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!
