Background
Brody, Elaine was born on April 21, 1923 in New York City. Daughter of S. Lawrence and Helen (Golding) Brody.
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Music Guide to Great Britain
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Paris: The Musical Kaleidoscope, 1870-1925
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Book by Brody, Elaine
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The German Lied and Its Poetry
(Most Lieder composers chose their texts with great care, ...)
Most Lieder composers chose their texts with great care, selecting only the better poems of the most significant poets. They hoped to endow these poems with music tha would enhance the words and thus make the poem more expressive. Since Professor Brody teaches music and Professor Fowkes teaches German the reader id offered a complete examination of Lieder from both an analysis of the musical score and the text of the poetry. The authors examine selected lieder from Mozart through Berg. After a brief summary of the formal contributions of the Minnesingers and Meistersingers, Germany's poet-musicians, the authors concern themselves more precisely with landmarks of the Lieder literature, works which represent the most successful marriage of tet and music. The principal topics covered are the meaning of the poetry, the origin of unusual words in the text, the role of the piano in the accompaniment, and the manner in which the composer combines vocal melody with figurations in the accompaniment. Special attention is paid to those elements of the poetry which have attracted the composer. the reader is offered an analysis of the poem's various levels of meaning and the poet's various levels of meaning and the poet's use of mythology, symbolism, irony and other devices insofar as they are essential to an understanding of the Lied as a whole.
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The music guide to Belgium, Luxembourg, Holland, and Switzerland
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The music guide to Great Britain: England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland
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The Music Guide to Austria and Germany
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Dodd, Mead, 1975, Very good., Text clean. 271 pages. Very good in good dust jacket. Music, Reference Out-of-print and antiquarian booksellers since 1933. We pack and ship with care.
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Elaine Brody
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Student, Vassar College, 1941. AB with honors in Russian History, New York University, 1944. Doctor of Philosophy in Musicology, New York University, 1964.
A.M. in Musicology, Columbia University, 1960.
Career
Graduate assistant, teaching fellow Washington Square College, New York University, 1961-1963, instructor, 1963-1965, assistant professor, 1965-1967, associate professor, 1967-1970, professor music history, since 1970. Chairman department music University College, New York University, 1965-1973. Instructor Sunrise Semester Columbia Broadcasting System-television, 1975.
Lecturer 92d St. Y, 1977, also. New York University Medical School, Institute Fine Arts, New York University, Cosmopolitan Club, Leo Baeck Institute. Conductor biography seminar New York Institute for Humanities, 1984-1985.
Educational committee Metropolitan Opera Guild, since 1977. Music consultant New York University Press. Organizer symposium Paris 1900/New York Today, 1980.
Achievements
Works
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The German Lied and Its Poetry
(Most Lieder composers chose their texts with great care, ...)
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The Music Guide to Austria and Germany
(Dodd, Mead, 1975, Very good., Text clean. 271 pages. Very...)
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Paris: The Musical Kaleidoscope, 1870-1925
(Book by Brody, Elaine)
- Music Guide to Great Britain
- The music guide to Belgium, Luxembourg, Holland, and Switzerland
- The music guide to Great Britain: England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland
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The German Lied and Its Poetry
Membership
Member International Musicological Society, American Musicological Society (chairman Greater New York City chapter 1974-1976, national council) musicological societies), Music Library Association, International Music Library Association, Consortium Comparativists, Phi Beta Kappa (secretary Beta chapter 1963-1971).
Connections
Married David Silverberg, July 4, 1966. 1 daughter by previous marriage, Sue Shapiro.
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Nationality
American
Education
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1941
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1944
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1964
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1960
Career
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1961 - 1963
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1961 - 1963
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1965 - 1973
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1975