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The Choral Tradition: An Historical and Analytical Survey from the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day » Read Now
by Percy M. Young. 376 pgs.

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...aiming at realism, contract the vocal line into imitative ejaculations...virtually a second movement. The music is less tense and runs in triple...instrumental colour...
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Counterpoint: The Polyphonic Vocal Style of the Sixteenth Century (1939) » Read Now
by Knud Jeppesen, Glen Haydon. 302 pgs.

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...The PRENTICE-HALL MUSIC SERIES Douglas...The Polyphonic Vocal Style of the Sixteenth...Rochester, 1937 . tury vocal music, edited by Donald...as the classical vocal...
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New Vocal Repertory: An Introduction » Read Now
by Jane Manning. 284 pgs.

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The first volume of New Vocal Repertory identified a genuine need, among singers and their teachers, for expert help in choosing contemporary repertoire from the often bewildering volume and variety of music available. It is now in regular use in teaching institutions and many works featured have...
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The first volume of New Vocal Repertory identified a genuine need, among singers and their teachers, for expert help in choosing contemporary repertoire from the often bewildering volume and variety of music available. It is now in regular use in teaching institutions and many works featured have found a wider audience. This has prompted Jane Manning to produce a further personal selection of over 60 vocal works, recommended for general repertoire. As before, pieces are graded according to their demands on vocal techniques and musicianship. Each is given detailed treatment from both performing and teaching viewpoints, with music examples, programming suggestions, and practical information. The stylistic range is even wider--composers from Norway and New Zealand are featured, there is also a strong contingent from Great Britain and North America including early pioneers as well as young talents. Works in foreign languages are now included, as are pieces for solo voice, and voice and tape. Jane Manning's persuasive advocacy is reinforced by over 30 years' international experience and over 300 world premieres. This invaluable guide will be warmly welcomed by amateurs and professional alike.
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Choral Technique and Interpretation » Read Now
by Henry Coward. 333 pgs.

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...the words and the music are thoroughly mastered...strain upon the vocal organs. ATTACK...softly until the music and words are fairly...of massage on the vocal organs. They...
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Treatise on Vocal Performance and Ornamentation » Read Now
by Suzanne J. Beicken, Johann Adam Hiller. 199 pgs.

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Hiller's Treatise on Vocal Performance and Ornamentation was published in Germany in 1780 and is an important manual on vocal technique and performance in the eighteenth century. This present edition, translated with an introduction and extensive commentary by musicologist Suzanne J. Beicken, makes...
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Hiller's Treatise on Vocal Performance and Ornamentation was published in Germany in 1780 and is an important manual on vocal technique and performance in the eighteenth century. This present edition, translated with an introduction and extensive commentary by musicologist Suzanne J. Beicken, makes the treatise available for the first time in English. With its emphasis on practical aspects of ornamentation, declamation and style it will be valuable to instrumentalists as well as singers and is a significant contribution to the understanding of performance practice in the eighteenth century.
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The Music Director's Guide to Musical Literature (For Voices and Instruments) » Read Now
by Alfred J. Swan. 166 pgs.

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...the practice of music: the principal melody...the three or four vocal parts, but in each...singer or player, music of considerable...independence of each vocal part. The...
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Varied Carols: A Survey of American Choral Literature » Read Now
by David P. Devenney. 318 pgs.

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This survey of choral literature, written by American composers from 1760 through the 1990s, examines nearly 3,000 pieces of choral music written by over 300 composers. Along with a descriptive analysis, the literature is placed within a historical perspective. Familiar and less well-known composers...
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This survey of choral literature, written by American composers from 1760 through the 1990s, examines nearly 3,000 pieces of choral music written by over 300 composers. Along with a descriptive analysis, the literature is placed within a historical perspective. Familiar and less well-known composers and their music are examined. The study seeks to remedy the superficial treatment choral music is often given in standard textbooks on American music and to acknowledge and expose the varied richness of the literature.
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Some Thoughts on Beethoven's Choral Symphony: With Writings on Other Musical Subjects » Read Now
by Ralph Vaughan Williams. 172 pgs.

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...regard it as a very difficult vocal exercise and do not attack it...for a week after. But is this music so unsingable? Toscanini and...soft wings of Joy. Then the music...
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A History of the Oratorio Vol. 1: The Oratorio in the Baroque Era, Italy, Vienna, Paris » Read Now
by Howard E. Smither. 480 pgs.

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...Johann Joseph Fux 408 Music Examples Examples...Quotation of single vocal lines only; slurs deleted...quotation of solo vocal parts only. 411-12...Easter sequence, and its...
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A History of the Oratorio Vol. 3: The Oratorio in the Classical Era » Read Now
by Howard E. Smither. 711 pgs.

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...scholarly writing about music or are explained...abbreviations of vocal parts S, soprano...prevailing concept of a vocal genre was that...intended to be set to music just...
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A Musical Companion: A Guide to the Understanding and Enjoyment of Music (Book IV "The Human Voice") » Read Now
by John Erskine. 556 pgs.

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...Other Nations 327 VOCAL MUSIC IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY...were all thinking, at first, of vocal music; and even now our system is not...soberly by that of the words. And in...
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J.S. Bach ("Vocal Music" begins on p. 414) » Read Now
by Malcolm Boyd, John Butt. 632 pgs.

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This superb reference work on Johann Sebastian Bach is the first volume in a new species of Oxford Companion that will focus on major composers. Illustrated with twenty-four black-and-white plates, this volume boasts over a thousand alphabetically arranged entries that cover Bach's music, his life...
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This superb reference work on Johann Sebastian Bach is the first volume in a new species of Oxford Companion that will focus on major composers. Illustrated with twenty-four black-and-white plates, this volume boasts over a thousand alphabetically arranged entries that cover Bach's music, his life and times, scholarship on Bach, and the performance of his music. Readers will find entries on the various genres that Bach worked in (including chorales, fantasia, sonata, concerto, missa), his many individual works (such as St. John's Passion, The Goldberg Variations, Brandenburg Concertos, Passacaglia, Well-Tempered Clavier, The Christmas Oratorio, and The Art of Fugue), places important to his career (such as Muhlhausen, Weimar, and Leipzig), and important contemporaries (Handel, Rameau, Vivaldi, Telemann, among others). There are also entries on instruments (harpsichord, organ, clavier, and so on), Bach performance practice, stylistic influences on his work, and other biographical details. The book concludes with a family tree, a chronology of Bach's life, a list of his works, and a glossary of terms. Bach was one of the giants of classical music, a composer of astonishing powers of invention. In The Oxford Composer Companion: J.S. Bach, music aficionados will have at their fingertips a treasure chest of information on this major figure.
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Singer's Repertoire, Part V: Program Notes for the Singer's Repertoire » Read Now
by Berton Coffin, Werner Singer. 218 pgs.

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Designed for use by professional singers, amateurs, teachers, coaches, and students; contains annotations for more than 1,000 songs in the basic vocal repertoire.
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Con Che Soavita: Studies in Italian Opera, Song, and Dance, 1580-1740 » Read Now
by Iain Fenlon, Tim Carter. 344 pgs.

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This collection of essays by European, British, and American musicologists seeks to consolidate the recent growth of interest in seventeenth century studies. It includes discussions of leading composers, repertories, geographical issues, institutional contexts, and iconography.
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Roman Monody, Cantata, and Opera from the Circles around Cardinal Montalto » Read Now
by John Walter Hill. 453 pgs.

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This book uncovers the connections between the invisible network of political and economic dependents among Italy's church and state elite and the formation of the Baroque musical style in Rome. The author rediscovers music for Battista Guarini's last stage work and the first Roman opera, and offers...
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This book uncovers the connections between the invisible network of political and economic dependents among Italy's church and state elite and the formation of the Baroque musical style in Rome. The author rediscovers music for Battista Guarini's last stage work and the first Roman opera, and offers a new explanation for the rise of the Italian chamber cantata.
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