Harold Arlen and His Songs

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Walter Frisch (H. Harold Gumm/Harry and Albert von Tilzer Professor of Music, H. Harold Gumm/Harry and Albert von Tilzer Professor of Music, Columbia University)

Harold Arlen and His Songs

Walter Frisch (H. Harold Gumm/Harry and Albert von Tilzer Professor of Music, H. Harold Gumm/Harry and Albert von Tilzer Professor of Music, Columbia University)

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Oxford University Press Inc
05 December 2024

Harold Arlen and His Songs is the first comprehensive book about the music of one of the great song composers of the twentieth century. Arlen wrote many standards of the American Songbook-including ""Get Happy,"" ""Over the Rainbow, ""Stormy Weather,"" ""Come Rain or Come Shine,"" and ""The Man That Got Away"" - that today rank among the best known and loved. Author Walter Frisch places these and other songs in the context of a long career that took Arlen from Buffalo, New York; to Harlem's Cotton Club; to Broadway stages; and to the film studios of Hollywood. Even with their complex melodies, harmonies, and formal structures, Arlen's tunes remain accessible and memorable. As Frisch shows, he blended influences from his father's Jewish cantorial tradition, his experience as a jazz arranger and performer, and peers like Gershwin, Kern, and Berlin. Arlen always emphasized the collaborative nature of songwriting, and he worked with the top lyricists of his day, including Ted Koehler, Yip Harburg, Johnny Mercer, and Ira Gershwin.

Harold Arlen and His Songs is structured around these and Arlen's other partnerships, analyzing individual songs as well as the shows or films in which they appear. The book also treats Arlen's performances of his own music as a vocalist and pianist, through numerous recordings and appearances on radio and television. A final chapter explores the interpretations of his songs by great singers, including many who worked with him, among them Ethel Waters, Lena Horne, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, and Ella Fitzgerald.

By: Walter Frisch (H. Harold Gumm/Harry and Albert von Tilzer Professor of Music H. Harold Gumm/Harry and Albert von Tilzer Professor of Music Columbia University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 226mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 658g
ISBN: 9780197503270
ISBN 10: 0197503276
Pages: 328
Publication Date: 05 December 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Walter Frisch is H. Harold Gumm/Harry and Albert von Tilzer Professor of Music at Columbia University, where he has taught since 1982. Frisch is a specialist in Austro-German music of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and in American popular song. His numerous books include Music in the Nineteenth Century (2012) and Arlen and Harburg's Over the Rainbow (2017). Frisch has twice won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor award for his writings. He has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany, the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, and Columbia's Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris.

Reviews for Harold Arlen and His Songs

Never before has there been such an extensive publication on Arlen's life and works, making it an invaluable resource for musicians, scholars, and anyone wishing to advance their knowledge of American songwriting. * J. J. Leary-Warsaw, CHOICE *