Carol Kimball's comprehensive survey of art song literature has been the principal one-volume American source on the topic. Now back in print after an absence of several years, this newly revised edition includes biographies and discussions of the work of 150 composers of various nationalities, as well as articles on styles of various schools of composition. Art Song is the body of classical music composed for voice and piano, a tradition in Germany and Austria(Lieder), in France (called Chansons or Melodies), in every European language, and in English in art song from Britain and the US. All classical singers study art song, including all voice majors in college.