The Cambridge companion to singing / edited by John Potter.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
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x, 286 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

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      Ranging from medieval music to Madonna and beyond, this is the only book to cover in detail so many aspects of the voice. The volume is divided into four broad areas. Popular Traditions begins with an overview of singing traditions in world music and continues with aspects of rock, rap and jazz. The Voice in the Theatre includes both opera singing from the beginnings to the present day and twentieth-century stage and screen entertainers. Choral Music and Song features a history of the art song, essential hints on singing in a larger choir, the English cathedral tradition and a history of the choral movement in the United States. The final substantial section on performance practices ranges from the voice in the Middle Ages and the interpretation of early singing treatises to contemporary vocal techniques, ensemble singing, the teaching of singing, children's choirs, and a comprehensive exposition of vocal acoustics.
      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
      • 9780521622257
      • 0521627095 ((pbk.))
      • 9780521627092 ((pbk.))
      • 9781139002073
      • 1139002074
      LCCN
      99032948
      OCLC
      41431725
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