Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction
1 A Nation Finds Its Voice
Edward MacDowell
William Dean Howells
Charles M. Loeffler
Edgar Allan Poe
Charles Griffes
John Tabb
Sidney Lanier
2 Charles Ives
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
John Greenleaf Whittier
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Charles Sprague
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walt Whitman
Vachel Lindsay
Henry David Thoreau
Louis Untermeyer
James Fenimore Cooper, Jr.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
3 Settings by Six “Americanists”
Douglas Moore
Stephen Vincent Benét
Theodore Roethke
William Grant Still
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Langston Hughes
Arna Bontemps
Countee Cullen
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Florence Price
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Langston Hughes
Ernst Bacon
Emily Dickinson
Roy Harris
Carl Sandburg
Aaron Copland
Emily Dickinson
4 Two American Originals
Mary Howe
Elinor Wylie
Amy Lowell
Virgil Thompson
Marianne Moore
5 John Duke
Adelaide Crapsey
Edna St. Vincent Millay
E. A. Robinson
Elinor Wylie
Sara Teasdale
Robert Frost
e.e. cummings
Mark Van Doren
Emily Dickinson
6 Into the New Century
Ross Lee Finney
Benjamin Franklin
Charles Naginski
Walt Whitman
Carl Sandburg
Sara Teasdale
Sergius Kagen
Walt Whitman
Carl Sandburg
Sara Teasdale
Paul Nordoff
Conrad Aiken
Elinor Wylie
Samuel Barber
James Agee
Frederic Prokosch
Paul Bowles
Tennessee Williams
7 The Second Decade
Hugo Weisgall
Adelaide Crapsey
e.e. cummings
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Herman Melville
Norman Dello Joio
Stark Young
David Diamond
Herman Melville
Vincent Persichetti
Wallace Stevens
Emily Dickinson
8 The Third Decade I
Jack Beeson
Edgar Allan Poe
Abraham Lincoln
Peter Viereck
Richard Owen
Stephen Crane
Robert Frost
Amy Lowell
Jean Eichelberger Ivey
Sara Teasdale
William Flanagan
Edward Albee
Howard Moss
9 Ned Rorem
Paul Goodman
Theodore Roethke
10 The Third Decade II
Ruth Schonthal
Walt Whitman
Lee Hoiby
Ezra Pound
Emma Lazarus
Emma Lou Diemer
Dorothy Diemer Hendry
Dorothy Parker
Richard Cumming
Philip Minor
11 The Fourth and Fifth Decades
Richard Hundley
Kenneth Patchen
James Purdy
John Corigliano, Jr.
William Hoffman
Helen Greenberg
Kenneth Patchen
Flicka Rahn
Amy Lowell
12 Half Century and Beyond
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Libby Larsen
Willa Cather
John Musto
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Louise Bogan
Lori Laitman
William Carlos Williams
Ricky Ian Gordon
Langston Hughes
Jake Heggie
Vachel Lindsay
Epilogue
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Authors

About the Author

Ruth C. Friedberg has taught at Duke University, the New School of Music in Philadelphia, and numerous Texas universities. She has performed as keyboard artist with the San Antonio Symphony and for chamber music and vocal recitals in many countries. Friedberg's publications include the recorded anthology Art Song in America, as well as entries in the Grove's Dictionaries of Music, The Complete Pianist, the American Women Composers song series, and Selected Writings of John Duke.

Robin Fisher is associate professor of voice at Sacramento State University. She began her singing career in Europe where she studied music as a Fulbright scholar and recipient of the Rotary Foundation fellowship. Fisher is co-editor of The Selected Writings of John Duke: 1917-1984 (Scarecrow, 2007).

Reviews

For the second edition of this critically acclaimed work on the American art song, Friedberg and Fisher have combined all three volumes of Friedberg's earlier work (v. 1, CH, Mar'82; v. 2, CH, Mar'85; v. 3, CH, Sep'87) into one large book, supplemented by the addition of ten composers born after the midcentury mark. The make-up of each chapter remains the same: short biographical sketches of composer and poet, followed by a discussion of one or more poems and their musical settings. Although the limited number of works by each composer is hardly sufficient to gain insight into his or her style or aesthetic, the important addition of some of the most popular song composers currently working today--among them Libby Larsen, Jake Heggie, and Ricky Ian Gordon--makes the acquisition of the new edition worthwhile. The revised format--the pages and font are bigger--also improves the readability of the work. This book can easily lay claim to being the most important work on the subject available today. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals.
*CHOICE*

Performers, vocal and instrumental, will find this volume useful.
*American Reference Books Annual*

American Art Song and American Poetry is an outstanding resource. The research is exemplary, the information is shared in a clear and eloquent style, and it is convenient to have all the information contained in a single compendium. Singers who have only a nodding acquaintance with this literature will be piqued to explore it, while those familiar with this repertoire will be tempted to revisit these milestones of American song, and perhaps discover composers and settings new to them.
*Journal of Singing*

The book could serve as an ideal textbook for university song literature courses focused on the American art song. It would also function well as a resource guide for singers and pianists who are studying or performing works from the genre. Those with an appreciation for the art song, American music or American poetry, and who might wish to survey the literature, would also benefit greatly from the book. . . .The authors’ knowledge of the subject matter is unequivocally excellent, and the book is expertly put together.
*American Music Teacher*