Potter, John, tenor

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

ML1460 / .P68 2012

782.009