Singing in Style A Guide to Vocal Performance Practices

The first historical overview of vocal performance practice and style ever published, Singing In Style provides an introduction to how such issues as ornamentation, vibrato, rubato, portamento, articulation, tempo, language, and accompaniment with period instruments have been handled since the seventeenth century. Each chapter presents a historical period and gives background information on the singers and composers, the vocal repertoire, and the stylistic conventions of that time. Specific repertoire examples are discussed as well, to show how to use the music itself as a context for making stylistic choices. Each chapter also has an extensive reference list arranged by topic, so the interested reader can pursue a particular subject in more depth.Covering the Baroque period to the present, Elliott casts a wide net, bringing together information from historical treatises, personal accounts from composers, performers, historians, critics, and current scholarly commentary into one convenient handbook for the student and the amateur and professional performer who want to learn more about how vocal works were sung in their day.

ISBN:	9780300136326
Publisher:	Yale University Press
Imprint:	Yale University Press
Published date:	01 Jul 2008
DEWEY:	783.04309
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	356
Weight:	656g
Height:	158mm
Width:	235mm
Spine width:	24mm

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