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Its first three chapters contextualise Baudelaire's poetry within the world of song (with a helpful overview of song types), discuss how to analyse poetry-as-song, and explore the consequences of repackaging Baudelaire's poems as songs. Each chapter will be of use to lecturers and students exploring the manifold ways in which words and music can be approached, as will the appendix tabulating shared critical language used in adaptation, translation, and word/music theory * Laura Tunbridge, Fontes artis musicae *

"Her book deserves patient reading as an extensive experiment in new ways of reading. * Susan Blood, H-France Review * Author Helen Abbott offers up much more intriguing if less generally recognizable sets of songs from France, Russia, and Austria that span a fifty-year period of intense and broad social and technical change. * Se´an Hand, French Studies * Helen Abbott's new book is an impressive and important contribution to Baudelaire studies and to the emerging field of text and music criticism and theory. * Anthony Zielonka, Nineteenth-Century French Studies * Its first three chapters contextualise Baudelaire's poetry within the world of song (with a helpful overview of song types), discuss how to analyse poetry-as-song, and explore the consequences of ""repackaging"" Baudelaire's poems as songs. Each chapter will be of use to lecturers and students exploring the manifold ways in which words and music can be approached, as will the appendix tabulating ""shared critical language used in adaptation, translation, and word/music theory * Laura Tunbridge, Fontes artis musicae *"

"Her book deserves patient reading as an extensive experiment in new ways of reading. * Susan Blood, H-France Review * Author Helen Abbott offers up much more intriguing if less generally recognizable sets of songs from France, Russia, and Austria that span a fifty-year period of intense and broad social and technical change. * Se'an Hand, French Studies * Helen Abbott's new book is an impressive and important contribution to Baudelaire studies and to the emerging field of text and music criticism and theory. * Anthony Zielonka, Nineteenth-Century French Studies * Its first three chapters contextualise Baudelaire's poetry within the world of song (with a helpful overview of song types), discuss how to analyse poetry-as-song, and explore the consequences of ""repackaging"" Baudelaire's poems as songs. Each chapter will be of use to lecturers and students exploring the manifold ways in which words and music can be approached, as will the appendix tabulating ""shared critical language used in adaptation, translation, and word/music theory * Laura Tunbridge, Fontes artis musicae *"

Its first three chapters contextualise Baudelaire's poetry within the world of song (with a helpful overview of song types), discuss how to analyse poetry-as-song, and explore the consequences of repackaging Baudelaire's poems as songs. Each chapter will be of use to lecturers and students exploring the manifold ways in which words and music can be approached, as will the appendix tabulating shared critical language used in adaptation, translation, and word/music theory * Laura Tunbridge, Fontes artis musicae * Helen Abbott's new book is an impressive and important contribution to Baudelaire studies and to the emerging field of text and music criticism and theory. * Anthony Zielonka, Nineteenth-Century French Studies * Author Helen Abbott offers up much more intriguing if less generally recognizable sets of songs from France, Russia, and Austria that span a fifty-year period of intense and broad social and technical change. * Sean Hand, French Studies * Her book deserves patient reading as an extensive experiment in new ways of reading. * Susan Blood, H-France Review *

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Helen Abbott is Professor of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham, and specializes in nineteenth-century French poetry and music, with particular emphasis on voice and performance. She leads an international team of researchers on the Baudelaire Song Project researching all the song settings of Baudelaire's poetry, from the nineteenth century to the present day, including classical and popular music settings, and songs in translation as well as the original French. Major publications include Parisian Intersections: Baudelaire's Legacy to Composers (Peter Lang, 2012) and Between Baudelaire and Mallarmé: Voice, Conversation and Music (Ashgate, 2009).

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