TY  - BOOK
AU  - Potter,John
AU  - Sorrell,Neil
TI  - A history of singing
SN  - 0521817056 (hbk.)
AV  - ML1460 .P68 2012
U1  - 782.009 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Choral singing
KW  - History
KW  - Singing
KW  - Vocal music
KW  - History and criticism
N1  - 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
ER  -