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1994

Vocal music

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"Music Of Forty Several Parts": A Song For The Creation Of Princes, Ian Woodfield Jan 1994

"Music Of Forty Several Parts": A Song For The Creation Of Princes, Ian Woodfield

Performance Practice Review

Examines the performance circumstances surrounding an early 17th-c. English adaptation of Thomas Tallis's 40-part motet, Spem in alium nunquam habui (Sing and glorify heaven's high majesty), for two investiture ceremonies in 1610 and 1616; the purpose of these two particular ceremonies are investigated. The resurrection of the work for the next investiture of the new Prince of Wales is proposed.


The Expressive Pause: Punctuation, Rests, And Breathing In England, 1770-1850, Robert Toft Jan 1994

The Expressive Pause: Punctuation, Rests, And Breathing In England, 1770-1850, Robert Toft

Performance Practice Review

Examines the close relationship between the arts of singing and speaking in English treatises on singing published from the late-18th to the mid-19th c. Speech patterns are compared to the singer's practices of punctuation, rests, and breathing in order to explain the highly articulated singing style of the period.


The Expressive Pause: Punctuation, Rests, And Breathing In England 1770-1850, Robert Toft Jan 1994

The Expressive Pause: Punctuation, Rests, And Breathing In England 1770-1850, Robert Toft

Performance Practice Review

Examines the close relationship between the arts of singing and speaking in English treatises on singing published from the late-18th to the mid-19th c. Speech patterns are compared to the singer's practices of punctuation, rests, and breathing in order to explain the highly articulated singing style of the period."