The supernatural voice : a history of high male singing /
The use of high male voices in the past has long been one of the most seriously misunderstood areas of musical scholarship and practice. In opening up this rich subject (to readers of all sorts) with refreshingly clear perspectives and plenty of new material, Simon Ravens' well-researched book...
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Suffolk :
Boydell & Brewer,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : A declaration of disinterest
- The discovery of Alfred Deller
- An inartistic trick : physiology and terminology
- The ancient world to the middle ages
- A famine in tenors : the historically developing human larynx
- Renaissance Europe
- Are we too loud? : the impact of volume on singing styles
- Late medieval and renaissance England
- Reserved Spaniards : cultural stereotypes and the high male voice
- Baroque Europe
- Into man's estate : changing boys' voices and nascent fasettists
- Baroque England
- A musicological red herring : the etymology of the counter-tenor
- The nineteenth century
- The bearded lady : gender identity and falsetto
- The early twentieth century
- The angel's voice : falsetto in popular music
- The modern counter-tenor.
