A History of Singing

Contents

• Introduction;
• Part I . Imagined Voices: Mythology and Muses;
• Part II . Historical Voices:
• 1. The genesis of the Western tradition;
• 2. The emerging soloist and the primacy of text;
• 3. The age of the virtuoso;
• 4. The nineteenth-century revolution;
• Part III . Recorded Voices:
• 5. A great tradition: singing through history - history through singing;
• 6. Classical singing in the twentieth century: recording and retrenchment;
• 7. Post-classical: beyond the mainstream;
• 8. The emancipation of the popular voice;
• 9. Sung and unsung: singers and songs of the non English-speaking world;
• Part IV . Sources and Reference:
• 10. Sources; Bibliography.