American Popular Song : The Great Innovators, 1900-1950, Paperback by Wilder,...

Description: American Popular Song : The Great Innovators, 1, Paperback by Wilder, Alec; Rawlins, Robert (EDT), ISBN 0190939958, ISBN-13 9780190939953, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "Composer Alec Wilder's American Popular: The Great Innovators, 1 is widely recognized as the definitiv on American popular song. In this volume, which achieved immediate praise and recognition upon its publication, Wilder discusses some 800 songs from the American Songbook, offering a composer's insight, acceccible music analysis, as well has his strong personal biases. Nearly fifty years later, this classic study has received a much-needed revision. While leaving Wilder's colorful prose and brazen opinions intact, language, style, and musical nomenclature have been updated to reflect current usage. The musical examples mostly remain, but piano score has been replaced with lead-sheet notation: melody, chords, and lyrics. Rhythmic notation has also been adjusted to follow present-day norms. Additionally, a final chapter has been added, which includes more than fifty songs that were not in the original, seeking to achieve greater representation for women and African American composers, as well as including several of Wilder's own songs"--

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