A History of Singing.
Potter, John.
A History of Singing. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (360 pages)
France and the chanson tradition.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover; A HISTORY OF SINGING; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I Imagined voices; Chapter 1 Origins, myths and muses; WHAT MAKES US SING?; A POSSIBLE GENESIS; UNTANGLING UNIVERSALS; BIRDS AND BEASTS AS SINGERS; A SCIENTIFIC APPROACH; MYTHOLOGICAL CONCLUSIONS; PART II Historical voices; CHAPTER 2 The genesis of the Western tradition; SINGING IN THE WESTERN ART MUSIC TRADITION: AN OVERVIEW; ORAL TRADITION IN THE ANCIENT WORLD; ORAL TRADITION IN ANCIENT GREECE; CHRISTIANITY: A RELIGION OF THE VOICE; ORAL VERSUS WRITTEN SOURCES; THE SOUND OF MEDIEVAL SINGING. NOTRE DAME AND AFTER: THE SPECIALISED SOLOISTSECULAR MONOPHONY: FROM ORAL TRADITION TO POETIC LYRIC; CHAPTER 3 The emerging soloist and the primacy of text; POLYPHONIC SONG; OCKEGHEM AND JOSQUIN: COMPOSING SINGERS; THE WRITTEN AND THE SUNG: INTABULATION; FROM POLYPHONIST TO SOLOIST: THE RISE OF THE VIRTUOSO; REVELATION VERSUS ROULADES: VIRTUOSITY AND THE PRIMACY OF TEXT; ITALIAN SINGING EXPORTED; CHAPTER 4 The age of the virtuoso; CASTRATO: AN ARTIFICIAL VOICE FOR VOCAL ARTIFICE; TRAINING AND PEDAGOGY: THE LONG TAIL OF RENAISSANCE TECHNIQUES; FROM PRIMO UOMO TO PRIMA DONNA. TOSI'S EUROPEAN REACHTHE COMPOSER AS SINGER; CHAPTER 5 The nineteenth-century revolution; THE RISING MALE; NEW TIMES, NEW TEACHING: GARCIA AND THE CONSERVATOIRE; TECHNIQUE AND STYLE POST-GARCIA; WAGNER'S VOCAL VISION; NEW SINGING, ANCIENT TRADITION; PART III Recorded voices; CHAPTER 6 A Great Tradition: singing through history -- history through singing; APOLOGIA; CARRIERS OF TRADITION; ORIGINS AND PRIORITIES; CARNATIC MUSIC; BIMUSICALITY: WESTERN MUSICIANS CAN MASTER INDIAN MUSIC; HINDUSTANI MUSIC: DHRUPAD; KHYAL; SINGING AND MODERN TECHNOLOGY; GENDER. SINGING WITH THE HANDS AND THROUGH THE INSTRUMENTS HOW SINGING IS ACCOMPANIED; TOWARDS VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL PARITY; CHAPTER 7 Classical singing in the twentieth century: recording and retrenchment; THE GRAMOPHONE AND THE END OF INNOCENCE; THE SONG REPERTOIRE AND THE CREATION OF ART SONG; INTERPRETING THE FIRST RECORDINGS; PORTAMENTO AS A DEFINING CRITERION OF GOOD SINGING; THE WAR YEARS AND AFTER: 'STÄNDCHEN' AS A BAROMETER OF TASTE; PORTAMENTO AND CURRENT PERFORMANCE PRACTICE; FROM PARADIGM TO PERFORMANCE: PERFORMERS, TEACHERS AND THEIR MODELS. CHAPTER 8 Post-classical: beyond the mainstreamSTYLISTIC FRAGMENTATION AND DIVERGENCE; THE EARLY MUSIC MOVEMENT; THE VOCAL AVANT-GARDE; CHAPTER 9 The emancipation of the popular voice; POPULAR CLASSICAL: ASPIRATIONAL IMITATION; THE MICROPHONE AND THE INTERNATIONAL PROJECTION OF INTIMACY; CROONING; VIRTUOSITY, IMPROVISATION AND THE LIMITS OF JAZZ; THE END OF AN ERA; ELVIS PRESLEY AND STYLISTIC SYNTHESIS; THE SINGER RECLAIMS THE SONG; HIP-HOP: A GLOBAL SUBCULTURE; THE END OF THE ANGLOPHONE ERA?; CHAPTER 10 Sung and unsung: singers and songs of the non-English-speaking world; GERMANY AND CABARET.
From its prehistoric past to its multicultural present, this history examines singing as a historical and universal phenomenon.
English.
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9786613571656
357165 MIL
Singing--History.
Choral singing--History.
Vocal music--History and criticism.
Chant--Histoire.
Chant choral--Histoire.
Musique vocale--Histoire et critique.
MUSIC--Instruction & Study--Voice.
MUSIC--Lyrics.
MUSIC--Printed Music--Vocal.
Choral singing.
Singing.
Vocal music.
Gesang
Gesang.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Electronic books.
MT893
783.04
A History of Singing. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (360 pages)
France and the chanson tradition.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover; A HISTORY OF SINGING; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I Imagined voices; Chapter 1 Origins, myths and muses; WHAT MAKES US SING?; A POSSIBLE GENESIS; UNTANGLING UNIVERSALS; BIRDS AND BEASTS AS SINGERS; A SCIENTIFIC APPROACH; MYTHOLOGICAL CONCLUSIONS; PART II Historical voices; CHAPTER 2 The genesis of the Western tradition; SINGING IN THE WESTERN ART MUSIC TRADITION: AN OVERVIEW; ORAL TRADITION IN THE ANCIENT WORLD; ORAL TRADITION IN ANCIENT GREECE; CHRISTIANITY: A RELIGION OF THE VOICE; ORAL VERSUS WRITTEN SOURCES; THE SOUND OF MEDIEVAL SINGING. NOTRE DAME AND AFTER: THE SPECIALISED SOLOISTSECULAR MONOPHONY: FROM ORAL TRADITION TO POETIC LYRIC; CHAPTER 3 The emerging soloist and the primacy of text; POLYPHONIC SONG; OCKEGHEM AND JOSQUIN: COMPOSING SINGERS; THE WRITTEN AND THE SUNG: INTABULATION; FROM POLYPHONIST TO SOLOIST: THE RISE OF THE VIRTUOSO; REVELATION VERSUS ROULADES: VIRTUOSITY AND THE PRIMACY OF TEXT; ITALIAN SINGING EXPORTED; CHAPTER 4 The age of the virtuoso; CASTRATO: AN ARTIFICIAL VOICE FOR VOCAL ARTIFICE; TRAINING AND PEDAGOGY: THE LONG TAIL OF RENAISSANCE TECHNIQUES; FROM PRIMO UOMO TO PRIMA DONNA. TOSI'S EUROPEAN REACHTHE COMPOSER AS SINGER; CHAPTER 5 The nineteenth-century revolution; THE RISING MALE; NEW TIMES, NEW TEACHING: GARCIA AND THE CONSERVATOIRE; TECHNIQUE AND STYLE POST-GARCIA; WAGNER'S VOCAL VISION; NEW SINGING, ANCIENT TRADITION; PART III Recorded voices; CHAPTER 6 A Great Tradition: singing through history -- history through singing; APOLOGIA; CARRIERS OF TRADITION; ORIGINS AND PRIORITIES; CARNATIC MUSIC; BIMUSICALITY: WESTERN MUSICIANS CAN MASTER INDIAN MUSIC; HINDUSTANI MUSIC: DHRUPAD; KHYAL; SINGING AND MODERN TECHNOLOGY; GENDER. SINGING WITH THE HANDS AND THROUGH THE INSTRUMENTS HOW SINGING IS ACCOMPANIED; TOWARDS VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL PARITY; CHAPTER 7 Classical singing in the twentieth century: recording and retrenchment; THE GRAMOPHONE AND THE END OF INNOCENCE; THE SONG REPERTOIRE AND THE CREATION OF ART SONG; INTERPRETING THE FIRST RECORDINGS; PORTAMENTO AS A DEFINING CRITERION OF GOOD SINGING; THE WAR YEARS AND AFTER: 'STÄNDCHEN' AS A BAROMETER OF TASTE; PORTAMENTO AND CURRENT PERFORMANCE PRACTICE; FROM PARADIGM TO PERFORMANCE: PERFORMERS, TEACHERS AND THEIR MODELS. CHAPTER 8 Post-classical: beyond the mainstreamSTYLISTIC FRAGMENTATION AND DIVERGENCE; THE EARLY MUSIC MOVEMENT; THE VOCAL AVANT-GARDE; CHAPTER 9 The emancipation of the popular voice; POPULAR CLASSICAL: ASPIRATIONAL IMITATION; THE MICROPHONE AND THE INTERNATIONAL PROJECTION OF INTIMACY; CROONING; VIRTUOSITY, IMPROVISATION AND THE LIMITS OF JAZZ; THE END OF AN ERA; ELVIS PRESLEY AND STYLISTIC SYNTHESIS; THE SINGER RECLAIMS THE SONG; HIP-HOP: A GLOBAL SUBCULTURE; THE END OF THE ANGLOPHONE ERA?; CHAPTER 10 Sung and unsung: singers and songs of the non-English-speaking world; GERMANY AND CABARET.
From its prehistoric past to its multicultural present, this history examines singing as a historical and universal phenomenon.
English.
9781139220453 1139220454 9781139223881 (electronic bk.) 1139223887 (electronic bk.) 9781139024419 (electronic bk.) 1139024418 (electronic bk.) 9780521817059 0521817056 1139209353 9781139209359 1316088995 9781316088999 1280393734 9781280393730 1139222171 9781139222174 9786613571656 6613571652 1139217364 9781139217361 1139214284 9781139214285 9781107630093 (paperback) 1107630096
9786613571656
357165 MIL
Singing--History.
Choral singing--History.
Vocal music--History and criticism.
Chant--Histoire.
Chant choral--Histoire.
Musique vocale--Histoire et critique.
MUSIC--Instruction & Study--Voice.
MUSIC--Lyrics.
MUSIC--Printed Music--Vocal.
Choral singing.
Singing.
Vocal music.
Gesang
Gesang.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Electronic books.
MT893
783.04