"TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER I THE GERMAN ART SONGS 4 Introduction 4 1.1. Volkston 13 1.2. Haydn -Mozart -Beethoven 17 1.3. Franz Schubert (1797-1828) 20 1.4. Robert Schumann (1810-1856) 27 CHAPTER II THE FRENCH ART SONGS 34 Introduction 35 2.1. Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864) 37 2.2. Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) 40 2.3. Charles Gounod (1818-1893) 43 2.4. Georges Bizet 46 CHAPTER III THE BRITISH ART SONGS 49 Introduction 49 3.1. The Lutenists 51 3.2. Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695) 53 3.3. Hubert Parry (1848 - 1918) 59 3.4. Charles Villiers Stanford (1852 - 1924) 63 CHAPTER IV THE ITALIAN ART SONGS 67 Introduction 67 4.1. George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) 69 4.2. Bel Canto 74 4.3. Vincenzo Bellini (1801- 1835) 75 4.4. Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848) 79 CHAPTER V THE RUSSIAN ART SONGS 83 Introduction 83 5.1. Alexander Borodin (1833-1887) 91 5.2. Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839-1881) 93 5.3. Piotor Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) 97 CHAPTER VI THE SPANISH ART SONGS 100 Introduction 100 6.1. Enrique Granados (1867-1916) 105 6.2. Manuel De Falla (1876-1946) 108 6.3. Joaquín Turina (1882-1949) 111 CHAPTER VII THE SCANDINAVIAN ART SONGS 114 Introduction 114 7.1. Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) 119 7.2. Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) 123 7.3. Emil Sjo?gren (1852-1918) 127 7.4. Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) 130"