Eno Koço is a teaching fellow of performance classes and permanent conductor of University of Leeds Philharmonia at University of Leeds, School of Music. He conducts throughout North England and maintains regular contact with several Balkan orchestras and opera houses. He makes programs on the music of Albania for broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and BBC World Service and gives papers on the same theme at different universities, including at Limerick, Leeds, London, Tirana, and Prishtina.

It is the Albanian 'lyric' song of the 1930s and the singers, instrumentalists, composer-arrangers, and lyricists who developed it that are the primary subject of Eno Koco's excellent and well-researched study. As the first monograph in English to examine an urban song repertoire from southeastern Europe, and the first to detail musical life in the region in the early twentieth century, it will be revelatory for international readers....the present study is a groundbreaking contribution to the literature on European vernacular musics. It belongs in every university library supporting programs in ethnomusicology, folklore, and European or East European Studies, as well as any library that serves the large Albanian communities living in English-speaking areas.

• Part 1 Preface: A Personal NotePart 2 AcknowledgmentsPart 3 MapPart 4 IntroductionPart 5 Tree DiagramPart 6 A Note on Names, Pronunciation and GrammarPart 7 CD Track ListingPart 8 Part I — SYNTHESISChapter 9 Chapter One Albania and the AlbaniansChapter 10 Chapter Two The Transmission of Urban SongsChapter 11 Chapter Three Performers and PerformancePart 12 Part II — ANALYSISChapter 13 Chapter Four Poetry and Music in AUS and AULSChapter 14 Chapter Five General Characteristics of the Modes Used in AUS and AULSChapter 15 Chapter Six The Analysis of Albanian Urban Lyric SongPart 16 ConclusionPart 17 Song TextsPart 18 GlossaryPart 19 BibliographyPart 20 Index of SongsPart 21 Notated Modes and Piano Arrangements of AULS in Order of the Examples Marked by Letters (Not Recorded)Part 22 Catalog of RecordingsPart 23 Explanation of Musical ExamplesPart 24 NotationChapter 25 Modes (Examples A-K)Chapter 26 Albanian Urban Lyric Songs (Examples 1-52)Chapter 27 Piano Arrangements of AULS (Examples L-P)Part 28 Programs of the ConcertsPart 29 IndexPart 30 About the Author

Eno Koço is a teaching fellow of performance classes and permanent conductor of University of Leeds Philharmonia at University of Leeds, School of Music. He conducts throughout North England and maintains regular contact with several Balkan orchestras and opera houses. He makes programs on the music of Albania for broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and BBC World Service and gives papers on the same theme at different universities, including at Limerick, Leeds, London, Tirana, and Prishtina.

It is the Albanian 'lyric' song of the 1930s and the singers, instrumentalists, composer-arrangers, and lyricists who developed it that are the primary subject of Eno Koco's excellent and well-researched study. As the first monograph in English to examine an urban song repertoire from southeastern Europe, and the first to detail musical life in the region in the early twentieth century, it will be revelatory for international readers....the present study is a groundbreaking contribution to the literature on European vernacular musics. It belongs in every university library supporting programs in ethnomusicology, folklore, and European or East European Studies, as well as any library that serves the large Albanian communities living in English-speaking areas.

• Part 1 Preface: A Personal NotePart 2 AcknowledgmentsPart 3 MapPart 4 IntroductionPart 5 Tree DiagramPart 6 A Note on Names, Pronunciation and GrammarPart 7 CD Track ListingPart 8 Part I — SYNTHESISChapter 9 Chapter One Albania and the AlbaniansChapter 10 Chapter Two The Transmission of Urban SongsChapter 11 Chapter Three Performers and PerformancePart 12 Part II — ANALYSISChapter 13 Chapter Four Poetry and Music in AUS and AULSChapter 14 Chapter Five General Characteristics of the Modes Used in AUS and AULSChapter 15 Chapter Six The Analysis of Albanian Urban Lyric SongPart 16 ConclusionPart 17 Song TextsPart 18 GlossaryPart 19 BibliographyPart 20 Index of SongsPart 21 Notated Modes and Piano Arrangements of AULS in Order of the Examples Marked by Letters (Not Recorded)Part 22 Catalog of RecordingsPart 23 Explanation of Musical ExamplesPart 24 NotationChapter 25 Modes (Examples A-K)Chapter 26 Albanian Urban Lyric Songs (Examples 1-52)Chapter 27 Piano Arrangements of AULS (Examples L-P)Part 28 Programs of the ConcertsPart 29 IndexPart 30 About the Author

Eno Koço is a teaching fellow of performance classes and permanent conductor of University of Leeds Philharmonia at University of Leeds, School of Music. He conducts throughout North England and maintains regular contact with several Balkan orchestras and opera houses. He makes programs on the music of Albania for broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and BBC World Service and gives papers on the same theme at different universities, including at Limerick, Leeds, London, Tirana, and Prishtina.

It is the Albanian 'lyric' song of the 1930s and the singers, instrumentalists, composer-arrangers, and lyricists who developed it that are the primary subject of Eno Koco's excellent and well-researched study. As the first monograph in English to examine an urban song repertoire from southeastern Europe, and the first to detail musical life in the region in the early twentieth century, it will be revelatory for international readers....the present study is a groundbreaking contribution to the literature on European vernacular musics. It belongs in every university library supporting programs in ethnomusicology, folklore, and European or East European Studies, as well as any library that serves the large Albanian communities living in English-speaking areas.

• Part 1 Preface: A Personal NotePart 2 AcknowledgmentsPart 3 MapPart 4 IntroductionPart 5 Tree DiagramPart 6 A Note on Names, Pronunciation and GrammarPart 7 CD Track ListingPart 8 Part I — SYNTHESISChapter 9 Chapter One Albania and the AlbaniansChapter 10 Chapter Two The Transmission of Urban SongsChapter 11 Chapter Three Performers and PerformancePart 12 Part II — ANALYSISChapter 13 Chapter Four Poetry and Music in AUS and AULSChapter 14 Chapter Five General Characteristics of the Modes Used in AUS and AULSChapter 15 Chapter Six The Analysis of Albanian Urban Lyric SongPart 16 ConclusionPart 17 Song TextsPart 18 GlossaryPart 19 BibliographyPart 20 Index of SongsPart 21 Notated Modes and Piano Arrangements of AULS in Order of the Examples Marked by Letters (Not Recorded)Part 22 Catalog of RecordingsPart 23 Explanation of Musical ExamplesPart 24 NotationChapter 25 Modes (Examples A-K)Chapter 26 Albanian Urban Lyric Songs (Examples 1-52)Chapter 27 Piano Arrangements of AULS (Examples L-P)Part 28 Programs of the ConcertsPart 29 IndexPart 30 About the Author