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Researching the Song: A Lexicon.

Publication: Notes
Publication Date: 01-DEC-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Researching the Song: A Lexicon.(Book review)

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Researching the Song: A Lexicon. By Shirlee Emmons and Wilbur Watkin Lewis. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. [xiii, 507 p. ISBN 0-19-515202-6. $74.] Bibliography.

For anyone involved in the serious study of vocal music or for any music reference librarian, the names Shirlee Emmons and Stanley Sonntag should be familiar as the authors of The Art of the Song Recital (New York: Schirmer Books, 1979). There are undoubtedly many well-worn copies of that volume in many libraries and voice studios. Researching the Song, by Emmons and Wilbur Watkin Lewis, a student of both Emmons and Sonntag, is another resource that should reach that well-worn status. Taking the research that was begun by the late Stanley Sonntag some twenty years ago, Emmons and Lewis have produced the kind of resource that...

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