This book is intended for music lovers, educators and researchers, listeners, poets and writers and anyone who has a word and a sound in his heart. The book examines the relationship between the text and the music of songs composed in the 19th century: how the composers Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Wolf and Mahler related to the texts of poets of the time, and how they reshaped these texts. They put the text in the hands of two tools that share the interpretation: the voice (in the mouth of the singer) which reflects the state of mind of the speaker, and the piano (or the orchestra), which describe the atmosphere and the external and internal environment. This is how a new being or work was created as a result of the merging of the poem and the composed song. The motto that runs through the soul of the speaker in the various poems is loneliness, unrequited love, longing for the unknown, merging with nature and melancholy.

Dr. Atara Isaacson, musicologist and educator, lecturer, interdisciplinary creator and researcher at Bar-Ilan University. Serves as head of the course for a teaching certificate in music since 2006, and head of the course for doctoral students in music education since 2016. Her previous books: "The Sound of the Song in the Romantic Concerto " (2019), "Music, Judaism, Israeliness and Us: A Journey of Identity" in collaboration with Dov Schwartz (2020), and "Creativity in Teaching: Teacher and Student in a Changing World" (2021).