Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments,
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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American History and Encyclopedia of Music
Author: William Lines Hubbard
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Catalogue of the Allen A. Brown Collection of Music in the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public Library. Allen A. Brown Collection of Music
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 606
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 606
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I Saw Eternity the Other Night
Author: Timothy Day
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241352193
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 367
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The sound of the choir of King's College, Cambridge - its voices perfectly blended, its emotions restrained, its impact sublime - has become famous all over the world, and for many, the distillation of a particular kind of Englishness. This is especially so at Christmas time, with the broadcast of the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, whose centenary is celebrated this year. How did this small band of men and boys in a famous fenland town in England come to sing in the extraordinary way they did in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries? It has been widely assumed that the King's style essentially continues an English choral tradition inherited directly from the Middle Ages. In this original and illuminating book, Timothy Day shows that this could hardly be further from the truth. Until the 1930s, the singing at King's was full of high Victorian emotionalism, like that at many other English choral foundations well into the twentieth century. The choir's modern sound was brought about by two intertwined revolutions, one social and one musical. From 1928, singing with the trebles in place of the old lay clerks, the choir was fully made up of choral scholars - college men, reading for a degree. Under two exceptional directors of music - Boris Ord from 1929 and David Willcocks from 1958 - the style was transformed and the choir broadcast and recorded until it became the epitome of English choral singing, setting the benchmark for all other choral foundations either to imitate or to react against. Its style has now been taken over and adapted by classical performers who sing both sacred and secular music in secular settings all over the world with a precision inspired by the King's tradition. I Saw Eternity the Other Night investigates the timbres of voices, the enunciation of words, the use of vibrato. But the singing of all human beings, in whatever style, always reflects in profound and subtle ways their preoccupations and attitudes to life. These are the underlying themes explored by this book.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241352193
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
The sound of the choir of King's College, Cambridge - its voices perfectly blended, its emotions restrained, its impact sublime - has become famous all over the world, and for many, the distillation of a particular kind of Englishness. This is especially so at Christmas time, with the broadcast of the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, whose centenary is celebrated this year. How did this small band of men and boys in a famous fenland town in England come to sing in the extraordinary way they did in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries? It has been widely assumed that the King's style essentially continues an English choral tradition inherited directly from the Middle Ages. In this original and illuminating book, Timothy Day shows that this could hardly be further from the truth. Until the 1930s, the singing at King's was full of high Victorian emotionalism, like that at many other English choral foundations well into the twentieth century. The choir's modern sound was brought about by two intertwined revolutions, one social and one musical. From 1928, singing with the trebles in place of the old lay clerks, the choir was fully made up of choral scholars - college men, reading for a degree. Under two exceptional directors of music - Boris Ord from 1929 and David Willcocks from 1958 - the style was transformed and the choir broadcast and recorded until it became the epitome of English choral singing, setting the benchmark for all other choral foundations either to imitate or to react against. Its style has now been taken over and adapted by classical performers who sing both sacred and secular music in secular settings all over the world with a precision inspired by the King's tradition. I Saw Eternity the Other Night investigates the timbres of voices, the enunciation of words, the use of vibrato. But the singing of all human beings, in whatever style, always reflects in profound and subtle ways their preoccupations and attitudes to life. These are the underlying themes explored by this book.
Catalogs
Author: Harold Reeves (Firm)
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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The American History and Encyclopedia of Music ...
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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Musical World and New York Musical Times
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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The Americana
Author: Frederick Converse Beach
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1164
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1164
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Catalogue...authors, Titles, Subjects, and Classes
Author: Brooklyn Public Library
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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The New Music Review and Church Music Review
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Category : Church music
Languages : en
Pages : 558
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Category : Church music
Languages : en
Pages : 558
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