Concert Song Companion

W HAT I H A V E attempted in this book is a survey of song; the kind of song which one finds variously described as ''concert'', ''art'', or sometimes even ''classical song''. ''Concert song'' seems the most useful, certainly the least inexact or misleading, of some descriptions, especially since ''art song'' sounds primly off­ putting, and ''classical song'' really ought to be used only to refer ...