The Cambridge companion to singing / edited by John Potter.

Format
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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Related name
Series
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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