A French Song Companion Author:Graham Johnson, Richard Stokes A French Song Companion is an indispensable guide to the modern repertoire and the most comprehensive book of French melodie in any language. Noted accompaniest Graham Johnson provides repertoire guides to the work of over 150 composers--the majority of them from France but including British, American, German, Spanish, and Italian musicians who ... more »have written French vocal music. The book combines major articles on Faure, Duparc, Debussy, Ravel, and Poulenc, and essays on Bizet, Chabrier, Gounod, Chausson, Hahn, and Satie with the complete texts in English of over 700 songs, all translated by Richard Stokes, making it also a treasury of French poetry from the fifteenth through the twentieth centuries.« less