Kategoria BISAC: Music >> Instruction & Study - Voice

Focusing on the earliest and most extensive collection of tropes we now possess, those associated with the abbey of Saint Martial de Limoges in the tenth and early eleventh centuries, Professor Evans offers new conclusions about the nature and early development of the trope.

Originally published in 1970.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while...

After the Mass Ordinary, the Magnificat was the liturgical text most frequently set by Renaissance composers, and Orlando di Lasso's 101 polyphonic settings form the largest and most varied repertory of Magnificats in the history of European music. In the first detailed investigation of this repertory, David Crook focuses on the forty parody or imitation Magnificats, which Lasso based on motets, madrigals, and chansons written by such composers as Josquin and Rore. By examining these Magnificats in their social, historical, and liturgical contexts and in terms of composition theory, Crook...

In Philosophy of Song and Singing: An Introduction, Jeanette Bicknell explores key aesthetic, ethical, and other philosophical questions that have not yet been thoroughly researched by philosophers, musicologists, or scientists. Issues addressed include:

• The relationship between the meaning of a song's words and its music
• The performer's role and the ensuing gender complications, social ontology, and personal identity
• The performer's ethical obligations to audiences, composers, lyricists, and those for whom the material...

Singing and Wellbeing provides evidence that the benefits of a melodious voice go far beyond pleasure, and confirms the importance of singing in optimum health. A largely untapped resource in the health care professions, the singing voice offers rewards that are closer than ever to being fully quantified by advances in neuroscience and psychology. For music, pre-med, bioethics, and medical humanities students, this book introduces the types of ongoing research that connect behaviour and brain function with the musical voice.

Singing and Wellbeing provides evidence that the benefits of a melodious voice go far beyond pleasure, and confirms the importance of singing in optimum health. A largely untapped resource in the health care professions, the singing voice offers rewards that are closer than ever to being fully quantified by advances in neuroscience and psychology. For music, pre-med, bioethics, and medical humanities students, this book introduces the types of ongoing research that connect behaviour and brain function with the musical voice.

Originally published in 1995. This book s collection of key essays presents a coherent overview of touchstone statements and issues in the study of Anglo-American popular ballad traditions and suggests ways this panoramic view affords us a look at Euro-American scholarship s questions, concerns and methods. The study of ballads in English began early in the eighteenth century with Joseph Addison s discussions which marked the onset of an aesthetic and scholarly interest in popular traditions. Therefore the collection begins with him and then chronologically includes scholars whose views...

INCLUDES 11 NEW SONGS, 16 RHYTHM CARDS, 29 DETAILED WEEKLY LESSON PLANS FOR TEACHERS, AND 12 FREE DOWNLOADABLE SING-ALONG TRACKS.

Singing Lessons for Little Singers^TM "Very Young Beginners" series is tailor-made for children ages 4 to 7 from current research and practical experience. In three progressive levels, it teaches professional singing techniques and total musicianship skills:

• Breath support and sustain
• Vocal registration (high/low voice)
• Vowels and diction
• Resonate tone quality
• Intonation (singing in tune)...