Afrikaans Art Song Literature

A Translation and Pronunciation Guide

Christian Bester, Bronwen Forbay (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

344 Seiten

2025
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-766082-9 (ISBN)

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Afrikaans art song literature is a fascinating but neglected genre, largely inaccessible to non-native speakers outside South Africa. For the first time, this translation and pronunciation guide makes Afrikaans art songs available to an English-speaking audience. Compiled by two music scholars and professional performers, it provides original International Phonetic Alphabet transcriptions and word-for-word translations in English. The selection represents some of the most beloved and beautiful Afrikaans poems from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, set by highly respected composers.

As well as the poems themselves, the authors give a brief history of Afrikaans art song literature, information on influential composers and poets, and useful footnotes about the unique geography, culture, landscapes, and peoples of South Africa. The book concludes with a pedagogical lyric diction guide and lists of resources for obtaining sheet music. Afrikaans Art Song Literature is an invaluable book for all musicians who want to perform or teach this little-known repertoire worthy of inclusion among the greats of the art song literature canon.

Christian Bester is Assistant Professor of Voice at Oklahoma State University. Along with numerous critically acclaimed operatic roles, Christian is a sought-after recitalist, concert performer, and clinician with regular stage appearances and masterclasses throughout the United States. Bronwen Forbay is Associate Professor of Voice at Furman University. She is an avid recitalist, concert performer, and masterclass clinician whose operatic successes include critically acclaimed performances of Mozart's Queen of the Night with the Wolf Trap Opera Company and the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor with the Cape Town Opera.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Notes on Translation and Methodologies
Introduction
Pronunciation Guide

AFRIKAANS ART SONGS

Hennie Aucamp (1934--2014)
Boerneef (1897--1967) pseudonym of Izak Wilhelmus van der Merwe
Jan Francois Elias Celliers (1865--1940) a.k.a. Jan F. E. Celliers
Doll de Villiers (1920--2016)
Izak Louis de Villiers (1936--2009) a.k.a. I. L. de Villiers
Pierre de Villiers Pienaar (1904--78) a.k.a. P. de Villiers Pienaar
Philip de Vos (b. 1939)
Ben Dryer (n.d.)
Izak David du Plessis (1900--81) a.k.a. I. D. du Plessis
Mornay André du Plessis (1909--41)
Erlank Eitemal (1901--84)
Gideon Fagan (1904--80)
Henry Allan Fagan (1889--1963) a.k.a. H. A. Fagan
Burger Gericke (1916--89) a.k.a. B. Gerike
Theodore Walter Jandrell (1888--1968) a.k.a. Theo W. Jandrell
Ingrid Jonker (1933--65)
Albertus Daniël Keet (1888--1972) a.k.a. A. D. Keet
Bessie Kotzé (née Badenhorst) (n.d.)
Chris Lamprecht (b. 1927)
Christian Frederick Louis Leipoldt (1880--1947) a.k.a. C. Louis Leipoldt
William Edward Gladstone Louw (1913--80) a.k.a. W. E. G. Louw
Daniël François Malherbe (1881--1961) a.k.a. D. F. Malherbe
Eugène Marais (1871--1936)
Francois Marais (n.d.)
Dirk Mostert (1897--1982)
S. J. M. Osborne (n.d.)
Peter John Philander (1921--2006) a.k.a. Piet Philander or P. J. Philander
Hilda Postma (1895--1993)
Totius (1877--1953) pseudonym of Jacob Daniël du Toit
Jan Reinder Leonard van Bruggen (1895--1948) a.k.a. J. R. L. van Bruggen
Christian Maurits van den Heever (1902--57) a.k.a. C. M. van den Heever
Steven van Vene (n.d.)
Nicolaas Petrus van Wyk Louw (1906--70) a.k.a. N. P. van Wyk Louw
Andries Gerhardus Visser (1879--1929) a.k.a. A. G. Visser
Cornelius Francois Visser (1882--1965) a.k.a. C. F. Visser
Theo Wassenaar (1892--1982)
C. H. Weich (1892--1973)
Anonymous
Biblical Texts

Bibliography
Appendices
Appendix A: Musical Anthologies
Appendix B: Resources for Obtaining Musical Scores
Appendix C: Sound Recordings: A Discography
Appendix D: Resources for Obtaining Information on Afrikaans Art Songs, Song Cycles, Composers, Performers, and Lyric Diction in English
Appendix E: Afrikaans Language, Culture, and History Institutions
Appendix F: Research Projects
Appendix G: Afrikaans Lyric Diction Summary
Appendix H: Glossary
Index of First Lines and Titles
Index of Composers and Songs by Voice Category

Erscheinungsdatum	04.10.2023
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	180 x 253 mm
Gewicht	626 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-19-766082-7 / 0197660827
ISBN-13	978-0-19-766082-9 / 9780197660829
Zustand	Neuware