Stephen Collins Foster: A Biography Of America's Folk-song Composer - Couverture souple

Milligan, Harold Vincent

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1410214710 ISBN 13 : 9781410214713

Editeur : University Press of the Pacific, 2004

Synopsis

Stephen Foster occupies a unique position in the history of music, not only of this country, but of the world. No other single individual produced so many of those songs which are called "folk-songs," by which is meant songs that so perfectly express the mood and spirit of the people that they become a part of the life of all the "folk" and speak as the voice, not of an individual, but of all. So completely do the "folk" absorb these songs and adapt them to their own uses, that the individuality and frequently even the name of the originator is completely lost, thus giving rise to the erroneous idea that a "folk-song" is a song created not by an individual but by a community. It is obvious that all things must have a beginning, however obscure, and every folk-song is first born in the heart and brain of some one person, whose spirit is so finely attuned to the voice of that inward struggle which is the history of the soul of man, that when he seeks for his own self-expression, he at the same time gives a voice to that vast "mute multitude who die and give no sign." Such a one was Stephen Foster, more fortunate in his fate than that glorious company of nameless poet-souls, whose aspiration after "the fair face of Beauty, haunting all the world," is preserved in the folk-songs of the world.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of the Pacific
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1410214710
• ISBN 13: 9781410214713
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 148
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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