Vocal Repertoire for the Twenty-First Century, Volume 1: Works Written Before 2000

ISBN-13: 9780199391028 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 366 str.

Jane Manning

Recenzje

Dr. Manning provides a singer's account of 160 English-language songs: insightful remarks on tessitura, vocal color, appropriate voice-type, text, interpretation, level of complexity and technical difficulty. It's the fruit of unparalleled experience in singing hundreds of vocal works over the past half-century.

O autorze

Jane Manning, OBE is a freelance singer, teacher, and academic, currently a Professor in the Vocal Studies Department of Guildhall School of Music, and Visiting Professor at the Royal College of Music. In the U.S., she has been Visiting Professor at Mills College, and has given guest seminars at Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, MIT, New England Conservatory, Princeton, Stanford, USC and Yale. A soprano with over 50 years' experience as a celebrated contemporary music performer, she holds Honorary Doctorates from Universities of York, Keele, Durham, and Kingston, and is a Fellow of the Royal Academy and the Royal College of Music. Over the course of her career, she has given over 3 hundred world premieres and has worked with the composers Harrison Birtwistle, Pierre Boulez, John Cage, Elliott Carter, Oliver Knussen, Peter Maxwell Davies and Judith Weir. She is author of Voicing Pierrot (2012),New Vocal Repertory: An Introduction (OUP,1994), and New Vocal Repertory, Vol. 2 (OUP,1999).