Vocal authority singing style and ideology
Why do singers sing in the way they do? Why, for example, is western classical singing so different from pop singing? How is it that Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé could sing together? These are the kinds of questions which John Potter, a singer with the Hilliard Ensemble and Red Byrd, and...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
1998.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b42032684*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Classical ideology and the pre-history of singing
- The medieval period: religion, literacy and control
- The Italian baroque revolution
- The development of the modern voice
- Concerts, choirs and music halls
- Armstrong to Sinatra: swing and sub-text
- Early music and the avant-garde: twentieth-century fragmentation
- Elvis Presley to rap: mements of change since the forties
- Singing and social processes
- Towards a theory of vocal style.
