A history of singing /
John Potter and Neil Sorrell
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012
- vii, 349 p. ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
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
0521817056 (hbk.) 9780521817059 (hbk.)
GBB1B2930 bnb GBB1B2930 dnb
Choral singing--History Singing--History Vocal music--History and criticism