Ira Gershwin Selected Lyrics

Author : Ira Gershwin
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781598530520

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Ira Gershwin: Selected Lyrics by Ira Gershwin Pdf

A keepsake edition gathering the lyrics of more than 80 of Gershwin’s most popular songs Ira Gershwin once remarked that he always tried to “capture the way people spoke to each other—their slang, their clichés, the catch phrases.” Few people in ordinary life, of course, can muster the humor, vivacity, and emotional directness that Gershwin brought to his lyrics. His collaboration with his brother George—one of the summits of American popular music—produced masterpieces that reflect, perhaps, the way people would like to talk. “Someone to Watch Over Me,” “Nice Work If You Can Get It,” “They Can’t Take That Away from Me,” “’S Wonderful”: these have entered the culture and become part of our common language. The insouciant, improvisational air of his lyrics belies the meticulous craftsmanship that Ira brought to every syllable. Robert Kimball has gathered more than 80 examples of Ira Gershwin at his best: the comic invention of songs such as “They All Laughed” and “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off,” the poignancy of “The Man I Love,” the wry edge of “The Saga of Jenny,” the sheer exuberance of “Fascinating Rhythm,” and dozens more. About the American Poets Project Elegantly designed in compact editions, printed on acid-free paper, and textually authoritative, the American Poets Project makes available the full range of the American poetic accomplishment, selected and introduced by today’s most discerning poets and critics.

Author : Ira Gershwin,Robert Kimball
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Music
ISBN : 0306808560

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The Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin by Ira Gershwin,Robert Kimball Pdf

The Man I Love, I Got Rhythm, A Foggy Day, Let's Call the Whole Thing Off, Nice Work If You Can Get It, They All Laughed, 'S Wonderful, The Man That Got Away ... make a list of Ira Gershwin's songs, and the names themselvse sound a familiar melody. The most literate and word-loving of our great lyricists, Ira Gershwin described his writing as simple, colloquial, rhymed conversational lines. Yet these simple lines were so irresistibly witty and enticing that dozens of them have made their way into the musical vernacular of the 20th century, the common memory of a song-loving culture.

Author : Ira Gershwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Songs
ISBN : UCSD:31822010992436

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Lyrics on Several Occasions by Ira Gershwin Pdf

Author : Johnny Mercer,Robert Kimball,Barry Day,Miles Kreuger,Eric Davis
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780307265197

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The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer by Johnny Mercer,Robert Kimball,Barry Day,Miles Kreuger,Eric Davis Pdf

The seventh volume in Knopf’s critically acclaimed Complete Lyrics series, published in Johnny Mercer’s centennial year, contains the texts to more than 1,200 of his lyrics, several hundred of them published here for the first time. Johnny Mercer’s early songs became staples of the big band era and were regularly featured in the musicals of early Hollywood. With his collaborators, who included Richard A. Whiting, Harry Warren, Hoagy Carmichael, Jerome Kern, and Harold Arlen, he wrote the lyrics to some of the most famous standards, among them, “Too Marvelous for Words,” “Jeepers Creepers,” “Skylark,” “I’m Old-Fashioned,” and “That Old Black Magic.” During a career of more than four decades, Mercer was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song an astonishing eighteen times, and won four: for his lyrics to “On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe” (music by Warren), “In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening” (music by Carmichael), and “Moon River” and “Days of Wine and Roses” (music for both by Henry Mancini). You’ve probably fallen in love with more than a few of Mercer’s songs–his words have never gone out of fashion–and with this superb collection, it’s easy to see that his lyrics elevated popular song into art.

Author : Philip Furia
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1997-07-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190283384

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Ira Gershwin by Philip Furia Pdf

To the perennial question "which comes first, the music or the words?" Ira Gershwin always responded, "the contract." The jest reveals both Ira's consummate professionalism and the self-effacing wit with which he ducked the spotlight whenever possible. Yet the ingeniously inventive melodies George Gershwin composed for such classic songs as "Someone to Watch Over Me," "Embraceable You," "Fascinating Rhythm," "It Ain't Necessarily So," and "Love is Here to Stay" live on in no small part because of the equally unforgettable lyrics of Ira Gershwin, lines crafted with a precision that earned him the sobriquet "The Jeweller" among his Broadway peers. In Ira Gershwin: The Art of the Lyricist, the older and less flamboyant of the Gershwin brothers at last steps out of the shadows to claim his due as one of American songwriting's most important and enduring innovators. Philip Furia traces the development of Ira Gershwin's lyrical art from his early love of light verse and Gilbert and Sullivan, through his apprentice work in Tin Pan Alley, to his emergence as a prominent writer for the Broadway musical theater in the 1920s. Furia illuminates his work in satirical operettas such as Of Thee I Sing and Strike Up the Band, the smart "little" revues of the 1930s, and his contributions to the opera Porgy and Bess. After describing the Gershwin brothers' brief but brilliant work in Hollywood before George's sudden death--work that produced such classics as "They Can't Take That Away From Me" and "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off"--Furia follows Ira's career through such triumphs as Lady in the Dark with Kurt Weill, Cover Girl with Jerome Kern, and A Star is Born, with Harold Arlen. Along the way, Furia provides much insight into the art of the lyricist and he captures the magic of a golden era when not only the Gershwins, but Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II, Gertrude Lawrence, Fred Astaire, and other luminaries made the lights of Broadway and the Hollywood screen shine brighter than ever before. From his first major success, the now-classic "The Man I Love" (1924) to his last great hit, "The Man That Got Away" (1954), Ira Gershwin wrote the words to some of America's most loved standards. In Ira Gershwin: The Art of the Lyricist, Philip Furia illuminates the craft behind this remarkable achievement to reveal how Gershwin took the everyday speech of ordinary Americans and made it sing.

Author : Ira Gershwin
Publisher : Amadeus Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Lyric writing (Popular music)
ISBN : 0879100540

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Lyrics on Several Occasions-Canc by Ira Gershwin Pdf

One of the most distinguished lyric-writers of his time, Ira Gershwin wrote for his brother George as well as Jerome Kern, Kurt Weill, Harold Arlen and others. Limelight presents a selection of stage and screen lyrics written for sundry situations and now arranged in arbitrary categories, to which have been added many informative annotations and disquistions on their why and wherefore, their whom-for, their how, and matters associative. "Gershwin's comments, witty and irreverent, and his anecdotes about the making of many favorites, are invariably interesting and frequently surprising." Chicago Tribune

Author : Thomas Inglis,Janice Grower
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780978411213

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Words by Ira Gershwin by Thomas Inglis,Janice Grower Pdf

Author : Jen Adams
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
ISBN : 9781451688795

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The Books They Gave Me by Jen Adams Pdf

Illustrated with full-color jacket art reproductions, a treasury of 200 stories about the tradition of giving books as gifts includes the tale of a couple that tried to read Ulysses to strengthen their their long-distance relationship, a girl who was not allowed to check Fahrenheit 451 out of her school library and more. 50,000 first printing.

Author : Erik Martiny
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444344295

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A Companion to Poetic Genre by Erik Martiny Pdf

A COMPANION TO POETIC GENRE A COMPANION TO POETIC GENRE This eagerly awaited Companion features over 40 contributions from leading academics around the world, and offers critical overviews of numerous poetic genres. Covering a range of cultural traditions from Britain, Ireland, North America, Japan and the Caribbean, among others, this valuable collection considers ancient genres such as the elegy, the ode, the ghazal, and the ballad, before moving on to Medieval and Renaissance genres originally invented or codified by the Troubadours or poets who followed in their wake. The book also approaches genres driven by theme, such as the calypso and found poetry. Each chapter begins by defining the genre in its initial stages, charting historical developments and finally assessing its latest mutations, be they structural, thematic, parodic, assimilative, or subversive.

Author : Thomas Inglis,Janice Grower
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780978411206

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The Sheet Music of George Gershwin by Thomas Inglis,Janice Grower Pdf

Author : Steven Suskin
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195314076

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Show Tunes by Steven Suskin Pdf

Show Tunes, the most comprehensive musical theatre reference book ever, chronicles the work of Broadway's greatest composers, from 1904 through 2009. Almost 1,000 shows and 10,000 show tunes are included, with additional musicals and composers added to the fourth edition. This fact-packed volume is informative, insightful, provocative, and entertaining: the definitive survey of a fascinating field. It is a must for musical theatre enthusiasts, performers, students, collectors, and anyone who enjoys Show Tunes.

Author : Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Publisher : Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781615353668

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Britannica Book of the Year 2010 by Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. Pdf

The Britannica Book of the Year 2010 provides a valuable veiwpoint of the people and events that shaped the year and serves as a great reference source for the latest news on the ever changing populations, governments, and economies throughout the world. It is an accurate and comprehensive reference that you will reach for again and again.

Author : bruce d. mcclung
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780195120127

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Lady in the Dark by bruce d. mcclung Pdf

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Author : Lucy Collins,Stephen Matterson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786489015

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Aberration in Modern Poetry by Lucy Collins,Stephen Matterson Pdf

This critical work considers the role played by elements that might be considered aberrational in a poet's oeuvre. With an introductory essay exploring the nature of aberration, these fourteen contributions investigate the work of major 20th-century poets from the U.S., Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Aberration is considered from the standpoint of both the artist and the audience, prompting discussion on a range of important issues, including the formation of the canon. Each essay discusses the status of the aberrant work and the ways in which it challenges, enlarges or supports the overall perception of the poet.

Author : Cary D. Wintz,Paul Finkelman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135455361

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Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance by Cary D. Wintz,Paul Finkelman Pdf

From the music of Louis Armstrong to the portraits by Beauford Delaney, the writings of Langston Hughes to the debut of the musical Show Boat, the Harlem Renaissance is one of the most significant developments in African-American history in the twentieth century. The Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance, in two-volumes and over 635 entries, is the first comprehensive compilation of information on all aspects of this creative, dynamic period. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclopedi a of Harlem Renaissance website.