Singers Of The Century

Author : J. B. Steane
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781574670578
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Singers of the Century written by J. B. Steane and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1996 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his previous books about singers, John Steane has taken for his subject the art of singing as heard on records (The Grand Tradition) and 'in the flesh' in opera houses and concert halls (Voices, Singers and Critics). Here, in Singers of the Century, he turns to the singers themselves, seeing how their art develops with the opportunities of their professional lives, with chance and design playing their part and all likely to be at the mercy of some quirk of taste or character. Each study is a carefully worked vignette, and the book is illustrated throughout with photographs and memorabilia, many never before published. Singers of the Century will appeal to all those with a love of singing and of music writing at its best.

Author : J. B. Steane
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781574670400
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Singers of the Century written by J. B. Steane and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1998-11-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Amadeus). This collection of brief essays covers such performers as Bjorling, Callas, Domingo, Pavarotti, Tibbett, Terfel, and te Kanawa.

Author : Scott Gac
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300138369
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Singing for Freedom written by Scott Gac and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: divdivIn the two decades prior to the Civil War, the Hutchinson Family Singers of New Hampshire became America’s most popular musical act. Out of a Baptist revival upbringing, John, Asa, Judson, and Abby Hutchinson transformed themselves in the 1840s into national icons, taking up the reform issues of their age and singing out especially for temperance and antislavery reform. This engaging book is the first to tell the full story of the Hutchinsons, how they contributed to the transformation of American culture, and how they originated the marketable American protest song. /DIVdivThrough concerts, writings, sheet music publications, and books of lyrics, the Hutchinson Family Singers established a new space for civic action, a place at the intersection of culture, reform, religion, and politics. The book documents the Hutchinsons’ impact on abolition and other reform projects and offers an original conception of the rising importance of popular culture in antebellum America./DIV/DIV

Author : Nicholas E. Limansky
Publisher : YBK Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781936411436
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early 20th Century Opera Singers written by Nicholas E. Limansky and published by YBK Publishers. This book was released on 2016-04 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical recordings by opera singers have proven since 1900 to offer much reward to the singer, student, listener, and collector alike. In the first book of this kind to appear in decades, Nicholas Limansky explains why critical listening is important and describes the merits of analyzing and comparing the recordings of previous generations of singers with those of the present. He also recounts how markedly record collecting has changed through the decades-especially in large cities like New York-mainly due to technological advance. He not only treats collecting 78 rpm disks, but LPs and CDs as well. Expired copyright now enables many of these early recordings to easily be acquired and collected, enabling the broad-scale comparison of style, technique, and vocal quality among the famous performers of earlier eras. The author points out what to look for among these differences in style, technique, and ability-both good and bad. (On occasion, the most famous are not the best ) With emphasis on today's student and collector, Limansky provides information about where, how, and on what labels given recordings can be found. He discusses printed resources that offer the interested even more information. Beginners and veterans alike will find much of interest in this far-ranging book. Nicholas Limansky studied voice at Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and has a performance degree from the University of West Virginia. He has sung with major professional choral groups in New York City that include The Bach Aria Group, Musica Sacra, New York Choral Artists (NY Philharmonic), Opera Orchestra of New York, The Netherlands Ballet, and Alvin Ailey (Revelations, Rainbow). He has written performance reviews for the Italian publication, "Rassegna Melodrammatic," and reviewed new vocal releases of historical singers for "Opera News, The Record Collector, Classical Singer, " and "Opera Quarterly." He lectures at the New York Vocal Record Collectors Society and is a member of its board of directors.

Author : Scott D. Harrison
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9401788510
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching Singing in the 21st Century written by Scott D. Harrison and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a group of leading international researchers and practitioners in voice pedagogy alongside emerging academics and practitioners. Encompassing research across voice science and pedagogy, this innovative collection transcends genre boundaries and provides new knowledge about vocal styles and approaches from classical and musical theatre to contemporary commercial music. The work is sure to be valuable in tertiary institutions, schools and community music associations, suitable for use by private studio teachers, and will appeal to choral leaders and music educators interested in vocal pedagogy. “I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and I am confident it will help bring all aspects of vocal pedagogy firmly into the 21st century. Refreshingly, many different areas of pedagogy are included in the text so we can all work together to more fully understand the singing voice. Up to the moment research is included along with an exploration of the evolving contemporary styles of singing. Further, areas regarding teaching and curriculum in higher education are also reviewed. All in all, this text a crucial addition to a professional's vocal library.” Jeanne Goffi-Fynn, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA.

Author : J. B. Steane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780715627105
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Singers of the Century written by J. B. Steane and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alison McQueen Tokita
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351925512
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japanese Singers of Tales: Ten Centuries of Performed Narrative written by Alison McQueen Tokita and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alison McQueen Tokita presents a series of case studies that demonstrate the persistence of Japanese sung narratives in a multiplicity of genres over ten centuries, including the way they flourished and declined, together with factors contributing to development and change in narrative performance. Performed narratives are examples of a shared cultural heritage, which in the past have given people a sense of belonging to a community. Narratives that were continually re-told and recycled in different versions and formats over a long period of time served to build people's sense of a common identity over space (the geographical extent of 'Japan') and time (the enduring power of many specific narratives such as The Tale of the Heike). Much scholarly attention has focused on Japanese pre-modern literature and drama, but the tradition of oral narrative has barely been touched. Tokita argues that it is possible to identify a continuous tradition of performed narrative in Japan from the tenth to the twentieth centuries. The elements of variation and change relate to the move away from oral narrative to text-based performance, and from a simple narrative situation with one performer to complex theatrical narratives with dancers, singers and other musicians. The resulting complexity led to the pre-eminence of the musical aspects in some cases, and of dramatic or dance aspects in others. Tokita includes substantial musical analysis and exploration of theoretical issues, as well as documentation of important performance traditions, all of which are extant.

Author : Roxane Orgill
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0689819919
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shout, Sister, Shout! written by Roxane Orgill and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographical sketches of ten outstanding female singers of popular music in the twentieth century.

Author : Clyde T. McCants
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786419524
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Opera Singers and Their Recordings written by Clyde T. McCants and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2004-07-23 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on American opera singers and what their recordings say about their artistry. It is not a book about all American opera singers, since many who had important careers on stage, made few, if any, recordings. And many of those who did make recordings, did so prior to the introduction of electrical recording in 1925 (and the resulting advances in the reproduction of the human voice). Opera enthusiasts can only imagine the sound of Farinelli's voice or read what his contemporaries have written about it, but with almost any famous or near-famous singer of recent years, enthusiasts do not have to imagine. Their voices are available through the technology of sound recording. There are 53 entries, one each for 52 singers and a composite entry for a group of Hollywood vocalists. Each entry contains biographical information and is followed by a discography of operatic recordings to be used in conjunction with the critical commentaries. The entries are in alphabetical order by the singer's last name and provide critical analyses of key recordings and of the artists' gifts and limitations.

Author : Dave Williamson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615406329
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God's Singers written by Dave Williamson and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher's description: Contains a special 75-minute CD of contemporary rehearsal techniques, presented live with real singers.