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The Penguin Book of English Song

Literature & Fiction

Stokes, Richard

Poetry

Penguin Press

A French Song Companion

A French Song Companion is an indispensable guide to the modern repertoire and the most comprehensive book of French mélodie in any language. Noted accompanist Graham Johnson provides repertoire guides to the work of over 150 composers--the majority of them from France but including British, American, German, Spanish, and Italian musicians who have written French vocal music. The book contains major articles on Fauré, Duparc, Debussy, Ravel, and Poulenc, as well as essays on Bizet, Chabrier, Gounod, Chausson, Hahn, and Satie, and important reassessments of such composers as Massenet, Koechlin, and Leguerney. The book combines these articles with the complete texts in English of over 700 songs, all translated by Richard Stokes, making it also a treasury of French poetry from the fifteenth through the twentieth centuries. The translations alone will prove invaluable to music lovers and performers; combined with the biographical articles, they become the ideal map for exploring this exciting and diverse repertoire.

Reference

Johnson, Graham

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Oxford University Press

A French Song Companion is an indispensable guide to the modern repertoire and the most comprehensive book of French mélodie in any language. Noted accompanist Graham Johnson provides repertoire guides to the work of over 150 composers--the majority of them from France but including British, American, German, Spanish, and Italian musicians who have written French vocal music. The book contains major articles on Fauré, Duparc, Debussy, Ravel, and Poulenc, as well as essays on Bizet, Chabrier, Gounod, Chausson, Hahn, and Satie, and important reassessments of such composers as Massenet, Koechlin, and Leguerney. The book combines these articles with the complete texts in English of over 700 songs, all translated by Richard Stokes, making it also a treasury of French poetry from the fifteenth through the twentieth centuries. The translations alone will prove invaluable to music lovers and performers; combined with the biographical articles, they become the ideal map for exploring this exciting and diverse repertoire.

Arts & Photography

Music

The Penguin Book of English Song anthologizes the work of 100 English poets who have inspired a host of different composers (some English, some not) to write vocal music. Each of the chapters, arranged chronologically from Chaucer to Auden, opens with a precis of the poet's life, work and, often, approach to music. Richard Stokes's notes and commentaries constantly illuminate the language and themes of the poems and their settings in unexpected ways. An awareness of how Ben Jonson based his famous poem 'Drinke to me, onely, with thine eyes' on a Greek original, for example, increases our enjoyment of both the poem and the traditional song; knowledge of Thomas Hardy's relationships with women deepens our appreciation of songs by Ireland, Finzi, Britten and others; Charles Dibdin's 'Tom Bowling', played each year at the Last Night of the Proms, takes on a deeper resonance when we know that it was written after the death of his brother Tom, a sea captain struck by lightning in the Indian Ocean.
Many composers of different nationalities appear, but the book remains quintessentially British, and includes pieces that have an established place in our national consciousness: 'Rule, Britannia' (James Thomson), 'Abide with me' (Henry Francis Lyte), 'Auld lang syne' (Robert Burns), 'Jerusalem' (William Blake), 'Once in royal David's city' (Mrs C. F. Alexander), and even 'Twinkle, twinkle, little star' (Jane Taylor). The poems are printed in their original versification and spelling, enabling us to trace the development of the English language as the book progresses.
The volume presents a huge amount of information about English Song that will enlighten all those who delight in the fusion of words and music. The presence of minor as well as major poets and the unique principle of selection make The Penguin Book of English Songa highly original anthology of English verse.

The Penguin Book of English Song: Seven Centuries of Poetry from Chaucer to Auden

History & Criticism

Penguin Classics

The Complete Songs of Hugo Wolf gathers together for the first time every poem Wolf set to music. Alongside the original German texts are translations by leading Lieder expert Richard Stokes, who also provides illuminating commentary. The 36 poets set by Wolf are each given their own chapter: a brief essay on the poet is followed by a note on Wolf's connection with the writer, extracts from letters that throw light on the Songs and convey his mood at the time of composition, and the texts and translations. Short biographies of all Wolf's correspondents flesh out the extraordinary life of this genius. This will be an indispensable volume for all lovers of Lieder.

The Complete Songs of Hugo Wolf: Life, Letters, Lieder

Faber&Faber

Mastering Search Advertising: How the Top 3% of Search Advertisers Dominate Google AdWords

Mastering Search Advertising shares insight and professional guidance from an expert Internet marketer on how to launch, manage and improve already-existing pay-per-click campaigns, providing an inside look into a largely undiscovered and exciting industry.
 Richard Stokes, founder of AdGooroo, a leading search engine intelligence company, has over 15 years of experience in advertising and technology management and includes real-life examples, case studies and charts that reveal not only the basics of creating a pay-per-click campaign, but also break down the intricacies of the process into simple, easy-to-understand steps that will help any business leader focused on achieving a world-class marketing strategy. Successful tactics known only to a handful of elite search marketers are discussed in detail and include specific techniques on how to:
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<li>Increase search traffic while simultaneously lowering costs </li>
<li>Conduct keyword research </li>
<li>Determine the best starting bid prices for new keywords </li>
<li>Manage bids without expensive bid management software </li>
<li>Launch a new campaign </li>
<li>Understand the Google quality score algorithm</li>
</ul>
 Stop throwing your marketing dollars away and learn how to dominate Google AdWords today!
 "A well researched, truthful, and up-to-date guide for pay-per-click marketers." Mike Mindel, CTO, Wordtracker.com

Mastering Search Advertising: How the Top 3% of Search Advertisers Dominate Google Adwords

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

iUniverse

Millions compete for exposure on Google, Yahoo!, and MSN Live Search, but 97% of them fail to get results. Become one of the elite 3% who succeed. How? Search advertising specialist Richard Stokes reveals that and more! Covering all major search engines, this powerful guide discloses: The $100 Bidding Myth”: why outbidding competitors rarely results in more traffic Simple website changes that can increase sales by 500% How to drive 80% or more of online revenues with rare superconverter keywords Winning strategies of the world’s top search marketers The best ads on the internet and how to write them The real factors for driving high click-through rates How to find competitors’ budgets, ad copy, and best keywords How to manage bids without expensive bid-management software And more!

Ultimate Guide to Pay-Per-Click Advertising

Marketing & Sales

Entrepreneur Press

Millions compete for exposure on Google and Bing but 99% of them fail to get results. As the founder of leading digital intelligence firm AdGooroo, search advertising authority Richard Stokes is in a unique position to reveal what’s going wrong and provide solutions to fix it. Using proven strategies from today’s search advertising elite, discover how to drive significantly more traffic to your site, dramatically increase click-through rates, steal impressions from competitors, boost your conversions, and increase your sales by unbelievable amounts. Since the previous edition, there have been a number of revolutionary changes in paid search. First, we are increasingly searching from our cell phones rather than desktop computers. Second, Google is no longer the only game in town. Bing now accounts for 30 percent of all U.S. searches. Finally, "search extensions" have become a powerful new technique you can use to collect phone numbers and email addresses with your ads, limit your ads to certain times of day, deliver coupons to nearby customers, and even provide handy "call me" buttons that are displayed only on cell phones. In this new edition, Stokes details all this and more.

Ultimate Guide to Pay-Per-Click Advertising (Ultimate Series)

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Living at Home with Dementia

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

AuthorHouse

J.S. Bach: the Complete Cantatas in Parallel Translation

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Long Barn Books

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The Penguin Book of English Song

A French Song Companion

A French Song Companion

The Penguin Book of English Song: Seven Centuries of Poetry from Chaucer to Auden

The Complete Songs of Hugo Wolf: Life, Letters, Lieder

Mastering Search Advertising: How the Top 3% of Search Advertisers Dominate Google Adwords

Ultimate Guide to Pay-Per-Click Advertising

Ultimate Guide to Pay-Per-Click Advertising (Ultimate Series)

Living at Home with Dementia

J.S. Bach: the Complete Cantatas in Parallel Translation