Walter Frisch

Arlen and Harburg's Over the Rainbow

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Produktbeschreibung

In this history of the ballad "Over the Rainbow", author Walter Frisch traces the song's journey from the imagination of composer Harold Arlen and lyricist "Yip" Harburg and its debut performance by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz (1939) through its numerous, widely varying interpretations throughout the twentieth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 137mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 181g
• ISBN-13: 9780190467340
• ISBN-10: 0190467347
• Artikelnr.: 48134218

Autorenporträt

Walter Frisch is H. Harold Gumm/Harry and Albert von Tilzer Professor of Music at Columbia University. He has written widely about music from the Austro-German sphere in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Frisch served as general editor of the series Western Music in Context from W. W. Norton, and as author of the series volume Music in the Nineteenth Century. His current research involves the music and career of American songwriter Harold Arlen.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
A Note on Recordings and Primary Sources
About the Companion Website
Introduction
1. Creating the Rainbow
2. Bringing the Rainbow to Life
3. Hearing the Rainbow
4. A Garland of Rainbows
5. Ivory Rainbows
6. The Island Rainbow
Epilogue
For Further Reading and Listening