The Cambridge Companion to Singing

Contents

• List of illustrations
• Notes on contributors
• Acknowledgements
• 1. Introduction: singing at the turn of the century John Potter
• Part I . Popular Traditions:
• 2. 'Songlines': vocal traditions in world music John Schaefer
• 3. Rock singing Richard Middleton
• 4. The evolving language of rap David Toop
• 5. Jazz singing: the first hundred years John Potter
• Part II . The Voice in the Theatre:
• 6. Stage and screen entertainers in the twentieth century Stephen Banfield
• 7. Song into theatre: the beginnings of opera John Rosselli
• 8. Grand opera: nineteenth-century revolution and twentieth-century tradition John Rosselli
• Part III . Choral Music and Song:
• 9. European art song Stephen Varcoe
• 10. English cathedral choirs in the twentieth century Timothy Day
• 11. Sacred choral music in the United States: an overview Neely Bruce
• Part IV . Performance Practices:
• 12. Some notes on choral singing Heikki Liimola
• 13. Ensemble singing John Potter
• 14. The voice in the Middle Ages Joseph Dyer
• 15. Reconstructing pre-Romantic singing technique Richard Wistreich
• 16. Alternative voices: contemporary vocal techniques Linda Hirst and David Wright
• 17. The teaching (and learning) of singing David Mason
• 18. Children's singing Felicity Laurence
• 19. Where does the sound come from? Johan Sundberg
• Notes
• Select bibliography
• Index.