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1LynnB
5 books about "singing":
Lullabies for Little Criminals
Song of Kahunsha
Mouthing the Words Being tone-deaf, that's what I do!
Bel Canto is about a terrorist kidnapping of several people, including an opera singer whose songs reallly influence the kidnappers and kidnapped
The Master Butchers Singing Club
Lullabies for Little Criminals
Song of Kahunsha
Mouthing the Words Being tone-deaf, that's what I do!
Bel Canto is about a terrorist kidnapping of several people, including an opera singer whose songs reallly influence the kidnappers and kidnapped
The Master Butchers Singing Club
2lilithcat
Okay, and I'll do it without resorting to books tagged "opera"! ;-))
The Praise Singer
The Singing Shark
An Anthology of English Medieval and Renaissance Vocal Music: Part Songs for One to Six Voices
Ko-uta: "Little Songs" of the Geisha World
Queer Noises: Male and Female Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Music
Sorry, touchstones don't seem to be working very well.
The Praise Singer
The Singing Shark
An Anthology of English Medieval and Renaissance Vocal Music: Part Songs for One to Six Voices
Ko-uta: "Little Songs" of the Geisha World
Queer Noises: Male and Female Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Music
Sorry, touchstones don't seem to be working very well.
3myshelves
The Song of God: Bhagavad-Gita
The Songcatcher by Sharyn McCrumb
Miss Seeton Sings by Heron Carvic
The Singing Sands by Josephine Tey
Change Song by Lee Hoffman
The Songcatcher by Sharyn McCrumb
Miss Seeton Sings by Heron Carvic
The Singing Sands by Josephine Tey
Change Song by Lee Hoffman
4QuentinTom
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin (singing and landscape in Australia: fabulous book),
A song of love and death: The meaning of opera Peter Conrad (History of opera and why fat people shrieking on stage is so fascinating)
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (A novel by a woman who can't spell her own name...)
The Song of Haiwatha By Longfellow (Singing Indians in verse)
The Queen's Throat: opera, homosexuality and the mystery of desire, by Wayne Koestenbaum (why queens love opera divas)
The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy, wonderful kids book about a Hungarian family affected by WW1. (Actually not much singing in this if I remember rightly...)
A song of love and death: The meaning of opera Peter Conrad (History of opera and why fat people shrieking on stage is so fascinating)
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (A novel by a woman who can't spell her own name...)
The Song of Haiwatha By Longfellow (Singing Indians in verse)
The Queen's Throat: opera, homosexuality and the mystery of desire, by Wayne Koestenbaum (why queens love opera divas)
The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy, wonderful kids book about a Hungarian family affected by WW1. (Actually not much singing in this if I remember rightly...)
5dylanwolf
The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing.
Tragedy into apartheid Rhodesia.
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett. A political hostage drama set in South America where an opera singer captivates her fellow hostages.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy... but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer. Looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes.
Chronicles by Bob Dylan. To misquote the Rolling Stones "it's the singer and the song".
Hey, tomcatmurr, I don't know why but I didn't really enjoy Songlines!
Tragedy into apartheid Rhodesia.
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett. A political hostage drama set in South America where an opera singer captivates her fellow hostages.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy... but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer. Looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes.
Chronicles by Bob Dylan. To misquote the Rolling Stones "it's the singer and the song".
Hey, tomcatmurr, I don't know why but I didn't really enjoy Songlines!
6QuentinTom
Dylanwolf, why not? I read it a long time ago, and it made a huge impression on me. There was something about the relationship between walking, landscape, singing, and story telling that really appealed to me. I like Chatwin's other travel writing too, although I know a lot of people find him quite pretentious.
Perhaps it's one of those books that if I read it again now it would really disappoint me. I think it's best to stay away from books that made a huge impression on one when one was young.As Flaubert says: you should never touch your idols: the gilt will rub off on your fingers.
btw, dylanwolf, you need to think of one more for this category, as Bel Canto has already been mentioned by LynnB. :)
dammit, why won't touchstones work?
Perhaps it's one of those books that if I read it again now it would really disappoint me. I think it's best to stay away from books that made a huge impression on one when one was young.As Flaubert says: you should never touch your idols: the gilt will rub off on your fingers.
btw, dylanwolf, you need to think of one more for this category, as Bel Canto has already been mentioned by LynnB. :)
dammit, why won't touchstones work?
7sandragon
All by Anne MaCaffrey
Dragonsong
Dragonsinger
Dragondrums
These are from the Harper Hall Trilogy
Crystal Singer
The Ship who Sang
Dragonsong
Dragonsinger
Dragondrums
These are from the Harper Hall Trilogy
Crystal Singer
The Ship who Sang
8dylanwolf
Tomcatmurr, you're right, sorry, LynnB, I skipped straight past the Bel Canto mention. Errr... The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer then. What a cheat!
As for Songlines, I suppose some of it is finding Chatwin a bit condescending, but that's a fault of many travel writers and goes with the territory really, I suppose. I was a bit put off by the middle-section of notes from his notebook which I would have prefered he had edited. I was touched however by the songline journey in the landrover at the end. I prefer Colin Thubron as a travel writer.
As for Songlines, I suppose some of it is finding Chatwin a bit condescending, but that's a fault of many travel writers and goes with the territory really, I suppose. I was a bit put off by the middle-section of notes from his notebook which I would have prefered he had edited. I was touched however by the songline journey in the landrover at the end. I prefer Colin Thubron as a travel writer.
9QuentinTom
LOL about Singer. Good one.
Haven't read Thubron, or Newby, who i believe is also a good travel writer. but I do like the genre, espcecially Durrell and Patrick Leigh Fermor, who is currently finishing his last book at the ripe old age of 378, or something amazing.
Haven't read Thubron, or Newby, who i believe is also a good travel writer. but I do like the genre, espcecially Durrell and Patrick Leigh Fermor, who is currently finishing his last book at the ripe old age of 378, or something amazing.
10LolaWalser
The time of our singing by Richard Powers
The phantom of the opera by Gaston Leroux
Piaf by many and any
Mémoires d'une chanteuse allemande by Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient (a singer's memoir that's also a classic of erotic literature)
Moreschi: the last castrato by Nicholas Clapton--touchstone leads to Moreschi's recordings on the Opal CD; forgettable except for one track...
The phantom of the opera by Gaston Leroux
Piaf by many and any
Mémoires d'une chanteuse allemande by Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient (a singer's memoir that's also a classic of erotic literature)
Moreschi: the last castrato by Nicholas Clapton--touchstone leads to Moreschi's recordings on the Opal CD; forgettable except for one track...
11smoss
i know why the caged bird sings
singing and swinging and getting merry like christmas
songs of innocence and experience
lullaby
birdsong
singing and swinging and getting merry like christmas
songs of innocence and experience
lullaby
birdsong
12aviddiva
A Mantis Carol by Laurens Van der Post
The Mudlark by Theodore Bonnet
The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
Dolly and the singing bird by Dorothy Dunnett
The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow by Opal Whitely and Benjamin Hoff
The Mudlark by Theodore Bonnet
The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
Dolly and the singing bird by Dorothy Dunnett
The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow by Opal Whitely and Benjamin Hoff
13ShannonMDE
Again, with the children's books..
I was a volunteer storyteller and the kids loved it when we read books based on songs.
She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain by Philemon Sturges
A-Tisket, a-Tasket by Ella Fitzgerald
God Bless The Child by Billie Holiday
Who Stole the Cookies from the Cookie Jar by Bonnie Lass and Philemon Sturges
This was one of my favorites..
This Jazz Man by Karen Ehrhardt a take on This Old Man that introduces children to jazz musicians and their instruments
However the absolute favorite of the kids I read to was.. Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed
I was a volunteer storyteller and the kids loved it when we read books based on songs.
She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain by Philemon Sturges
A-Tisket, a-Tasket by Ella Fitzgerald
God Bless The Child by Billie Holiday
Who Stole the Cookies from the Cookie Jar by Bonnie Lass and Philemon Sturges
This was one of my favorites..
This Jazz Man by Karen Ehrhardt a take on This Old Man that introduces children to jazz musicians and their instruments
However the absolute favorite of the kids I read to was.. Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed
15aviddiva
ShannonMDE, I teach music and I have tons of those:
Today is Monday by Eric Carle
Steven Kellogg's Yankee Doodle by Edward Bangs
Mary Wore Her Red Dress and Henry Wore His Green Sneakers by Merle Peek
The Fox Went Out on A Chilly Night by Peter Speier
He's Got The Whole World In his Hands by Kadir Nelson
and not exactly singing, but
Charlie Parker Played Be-Bop by Chris RAschka
Today is Monday by Eric Carle
Steven Kellogg's Yankee Doodle by Edward Bangs
Mary Wore Her Red Dress and Henry Wore His Green Sneakers by Merle Peek
The Fox Went Out on A Chilly Night by Peter Speier
He's Got The Whole World In his Hands by Kadir Nelson
and not exactly singing, but
Charlie Parker Played Be-Bop by Chris RAschka
