This is a thorough critical study of Marlowe's entire output - plays, translations and poems - prefaced by a biographical chapter. It is an attempt to provide the 'life and works' study for the general reader. Mr Steane takes the poetry as the centre of his interest; offering a literary judgement on Marlowe's art rather than further discussion of sources and background. He provides a balanced account of a great poetic dramatist, a writer of exceptional power whose poetry also reveals profound human flaws.

Marlowe: A Critical Study

Literature & Fiction

Steane, J. B.

History & Criticism

Cambridge University Press

Dramas & Plays

Tennyson

Arco Publ. Co.

Before the gramophone could do justice to an orchestra, it was able to reproduce the human voice with comparative fidelity. Steane examines the great mass of singing on record and follows the fortunes of modern singers as well as old, in song, opera, and choral singing. This corrected second edition includes a preface and bibliography.

The Grand Tradition: Seventy Years of Singing on Record

Arts & Photography

Music

Macmillan Pub. Co.

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The grand tradition;: Seventy years of singing on record

Duckworth

Voices: Singers and Critics

Gerald Duckworth Co Ltd

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf : A Career on Record

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

This text looks at opera singers of the 20th century, seeing how their art develops with the opportunities of their professional lives. The 50 singers chosen are from different parts of the 20th century. Several are from the early years, such as Adelina Patti, Emma Calve, Geraldine Farrar, and the tenors Smirnov and Sobinov. The singers from the middle years include Flagstad and Ferrier, and those from the later years of the century include Regine Crespin, Carlo Bergonzi, Arleen Auger and Lucia Popp. The book is illustrated with photographs and memorabilia.

Singers of the Century, Vol. 1

Amadeus Press

John Steane's subject, in all three sections of this book, is the art of singing. In the first part he takes the material, the voices themselves, in the second he considers the work and achievement of ten individual singers; and in the third he listens through the ears of an earlier generation of critics, finding much to learn. The 'Assortment of Voices' in Part I is a sorting, a distinguishing of voice-types with regard to timbre and quality as well as range, repertoire and power. Description of terms such as coloratura, soubrette, spinto and baryton-Martin involves the meaning and derivation of the words. The need is argued for a new category, the soprano-mezzo, and for a broader but more sharply delineated notion of the Heldentenor. The ten singers chosen for special attention in Part II range chronologically from the great baritone Mattia Battistini, who lived two-thirds of his long life in the nineteenth century, to Maria Callas and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf in our own day. Rosa Ponselle and Giovanni Martinelli are given special attention. Part III criticises the critics, from Dyneley Hussey and the veteran Herman Klein to Neville Cardus and the presiding authority Ernest Newman. These were entertaining writers as well as acute critics, and with John Steane's observant commentaries they provide a quickening of response to music in general and singing in particular.

Voices, Singers & Critics

Amadeus Pr

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