A History of Singing
- Author: Potter, John
- Author: Sorrell, Neil
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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.