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Tenor : history of a voice /
John Potter begins by surveying the prehistory of the tenor in the medieval period, when Gregorian chant and early polyphony had implications for a voice-type, and proceeds to the sixteenth century, when singers were first identified as tenors. He focuses on many of the greatest tenors-- those who p...
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| Language: | Inglés |
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New Haven ; London :
Yale University Press,
[2009]
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- The prehistory of the voice
- Handel, Mozart and the tenor-castrato connection
- Nourrit, Duprez and the tenorino d'hier
- The tenor as artist
- Caruso and the Italian succession
- The romantic tenor hero
- Splendid isolationists? : the British Isles in the twentieth century
- France and the decline of linguistic lyricism
- Russia and the preservation of lost traditions
- The twentieth-century Heldentenor
- Post-war losses and gains.