Katherine Bergeron is Dean of the College and Professor of Music at Brown University

Winner of the Otto Kinkeldey Award, American Musicological Society
Winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award

"Bergeron succeeds in presenting both music professionals and amateurs with an invaluable resource on French mélodie in the Belle Epoque. The reader gains a comprehensive understanding of the genre and may even develop an appreciation and inquisitiveness for period recordings. Bergeron set out to bring to life a lost tradition and in so doing achieves her goal of explaining to the reader what the French mélodie meant to the people of its time and why it mattered to them." --Notes

"Voice Lessons works well: one reads text, examines the pictures, studies printed score, and hears the historic and modern sounds all at once, cross-referencing at will." --H-France Review

"The early recordings she discusses are essential to her analysis, and their presence on Oxford's website is invaluable...Bergeron's writing is poetic and even luminous...She is a careful guide." --French Studies

"Bergeron's commentary is limpid, well crafter, at ease with the multiple vocabularies in play. Her affection for the material is catching."--H-France Review

"This is not a book that one merely reads--one "hears" it...Overwhelmingly full of valuable insights, excited prose, and numerous MRMs about that most basic of questions about vocal music--of any place or era--the relationship between text and music." --Nineteenth-Century French Studies