Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 402
Trim: 7¼ x 10½
978-0-8108-8453-3 • Hardback • August 2016 • $89.00 • (£68.00)
978-0-8108-8454-0 • eBook • August 2016 • $84.50 • (£65.00)
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.
Foreword by Håkan Hagegård
Preface by Donald Simonson
1Introduction
Part I: Diction of the Scandinavian Languages
2Introduction to Part I
3Swedish Diction
4Norwegian Diction
5Danish Diction
Part II: Art Song Repertoire of Scandinavia
6Introduction to Part II
7Swedish Repertoire
8Norwegian Repertoire
9Danish Repertoire
Part III: Translations and Transcriptions
10Introduction to Part III
11Swedish Translations and Transcriptions
12Norwegian Translations and Transcriptions
13Danish Translations and Transcriptions
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.
— Scandinavian Studies