Words for Music

Study of the art of song, with focus on how words and music go together, asking questions such as, is the making of a song a poet’s job, a musician’s job, etc, can poetry be too good to set to music?, what makes a good song?; chapters on the dispute between music and poetry, the poet’s task, the decline of song, the poet and the theatre, and with a chapter on Yeats and the Art of Song; patterned paper over green cloth boards with white label to spine; bookshop label to front pastedown, medium foxing/offset to endpapers, prelims and text block, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapper edgeworn and rubbed, sunned to front panel, spine browned, small stain lower rear, price clipped, o.w. Good.