Accompanied voices
Subtitle: poets on composers, from Thomas Tallis to Arvo Pärt
By: selected by John Greening
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781783270156
Subjects: Composers; Music; English poetry; Poetry
Description: An anthology of poems about composers from the Renaissance through the present, all written since the advent of commercial recordings. The poems are arranged chronologically by composer.
Notes: Includes indexes (index of first lines; index of titles).

"Composers": pages 179-190; "Poets": pages191-200.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Thomas Tallis (1505-85); title: William Byrd (?1543-1623); title: John Dowland (?1563-1626); title: Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643); title: Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652); title: Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625); title: Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707); title: Henry Purcell (1659-95); title: François Couperin (1668-1733); title: Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741); title: Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764); title: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750); title: George Frideric Handel (1685-1759); title: Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757); title: Christoph Willibald von Gluck (1714-87); title: Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809); title: Antonio Salieri (1750-1825); title: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91); title: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827); title: Niccoló Paganini (1782-1840); title: John Field (1782-1837); title: Franz Schubert (1797-1828); title: Hector Berlioz (1803-69); title: Felix Mendelssohn (1809-47); title: Fryderyk Chopin (1810-49); title: Robert Schumann (1810-56); title: Franz Liszt (1811-86); title: Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901); title: Richard Wagner (1813-83); title: Anton Bruckner (1824-96); title: Bedrich Smetana (1824-84); title: Johannes Brahms (1833-97); title: Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921); title: Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-93); title: Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904); title: Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900); title: Edvard Grieg (1843-1907); title: Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924); title: Leos Janácek (1854-1928); title: Edward Elgar (1857-1934); title: Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924); title: Hugo Wolf (1860-1903); title: Gustav Mahler (1860-1911); title: Frederick Delius (1862-1934); title: Claude Debussy (1862-1918); title: Richard Strauss (1864-1949); title: Jean Sibelius (1865-1957); title: Erik Satie (1866-1925); title: Amy Beach (1867-1944); title: Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958); title: Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943); title: Gustav Holst (1874-1934); title: Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951); title: Maurice Ravel (1875-1937); title: Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936); title: Béla Bartók (1881-1945); title: Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971); title: Percy Grainger (1882-1961); title: Arnold Bax (1883-1953); title: Anton Webern (1883-1945); title: Alban Berg (1885-1935); title: George Butterworth (1885-1916); title: Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959); title: Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953); title: Peter Warlock (Philip Heseltine) (1894-1930); title: Francis Poulenc (1899-1963); title: Aaron Copland (1900-90); title: Gerald Finzi (1901-56); title: Michael Tippett (1905-98); title: Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-75); title: Olivier Messiaen (1908-92); title: Samuel Barber (1910-81); title: John Cage (1912-92); title: Benjamin Britten (1913-76); title: Witold Lutoslawski (1913-94); title: György Ligeti (1923-2006); title: Harrison Birtwistle (b.1934); title: Peter Maxwell Davies (b.1934); title: Arvo Pärt (b.1935); title: Epilogue.