The Cambridge companion to singing / edited by John Potter.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Description
x, 286 p. : ill., music ; 26 cm.

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      The Cambridge companions to music
      Bibliographic references
      Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-278) and index.
      Contents
      • Introduction : singing at the turn of the century / John Potter
      • "Songlines" : vocal traditions in world music / John Schaefer
      • Rock singing / Richard Middleton
      • The evolving language of rap / David Toop
      • Jazz singing : the first hundred years / John Potter
      • Stage and screen entertainers in the twentieth century / Stephen Banfield
      • Song into theatre : the beginnings of opera / John Rosselli
      • Grand opera : nineteenth-century revolution and twentieth-century tradition / John Rosselli
      • European art song / Stephen Varcoe
      • English cathedral choirs in the twentieth century / Timothy Day
      • Sacred choral music in the United States : an overview / Neely Bruce
      • Some notes on choral singing / Heikki Liimola
      • Ensemble singing / John Potter
      • The voice in the Middle Ages / Joseph Dyer
      • Reconstructing pre-Romantic singing technique / Richard Wistreich
      • Alternative voices : contemporary vocal techniques / Linda Hirst and David Wright
      • The teaching (and learning) of singing / David Mason
      • Children's singing / Felicity Laurence
      • Where does the sound come from? / Johan Sundberg.
      ISBN
      • 0521622255 (hbk.)
      • 0521627095 (pbk.)
      LCCN
      99032948
      OCLC
      41431725
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