In Songs of the Second Viennese School: A Performer s Guide to Selected Solo Vocal Works, scholar Loralee Songer outlines for singers and voice teachers critical information on selected solo vocal works by three major classical composers active during the first half of the twentieth century: Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, and Anton Webern. For too long, the remarkable vocal works of these composers have received insufficient attention because too many have assumed their works to be unsingable atonal pieces, musically impossible (or unrewarding) for performers and entirely unsatisfying for...

In Songs of the Second Viennese School: A Performer s Guide to Selected Solo Vocal Works, scholar Loralee Songer outlines for singers and voice teachers critical information on selected solo vocal works by three major classical composers active during the first half of the twentieth century: Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, and Anton Webern. For too long, the remarkable vocal works of these composers have received insufficient attention because too many have assumed their works to be unsingable atonal pieces, musically impossible (or unrewarding) for performers and entirely unsatisfying for...