A history of singing / John Potter and Neil Sorrell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Potter, John (Tenor)

Contributor:

Sorrell, Neil.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Singing--History.

Singing.

History.

Choral singing--History.

Choral singing.

Vocal music--History and criticism.

Vocal music.

Physical Description:

vii, 349 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Contents:

Imagined voices. Origins, myths and muses

Historical voices. The genesis of the Western tradition ; The emerging soloist and the primacy of text ; The age of the virtuoso ; The nineteenth-century revolution

Recorded voices. A great tradition : singing through history-history through singing ; Classical singing in the twentieth century : recording and retrenchment ; Post-classical : beyond the mainstream ; The emancipation of the popular voice ; Sung and unsung : singers and songs of the non-English-speaking world.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780521817059

0521817056

OCLC:

755071796