King's College Choir, an Inspiration to Other Church Choirs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook King's College Choir, an Inspiration to Other Church Choirs write by David Baxter MacBride. This book was released on 1978. King's College Choir, an Inspiration to Other Church Choirs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
I Saw Eternity the Other Night
I Saw Eternity the Other Night - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook I Saw Eternity the Other Night write by Timothy Day. This book was released on 2018-11-01. I Saw Eternity the Other Night available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The King's College Choir Book
The King's College Choir Book - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The King's College Choir Book write by Jonathan Rippon. This book was released on 1997. The King's College Choir Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Choir of Kingâe(tm)s College, Cambridge, is world-famous. Through radio, television and recordings its unique sound has been heard in countless homes on every continent. When King Henry VI founded the College Chapel in 1446, the statutes provided for six clerks (singing men) and 16 choristers. Who could have foreseen that the Chapel would become one of the architectural glories; or that its Choir would be singing to many thousands of visitors each year? The text follows the activities of the Choir through a typical year, featuring the preparations for events.
Vocal Authority
Vocal Authority - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Vocal Authority write by John Potter. This book was released on 2006-11-02. Vocal Authority available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A fascinating history of singing styles from the ancient world to the present.
A Good Quire of Voices: The Provision of Choral Music at St.George's Chapel, Windsor Castle and Eton College, c.1640-1733
A Good Quire of Voices: The Provision of Choral Music at St.George's Chapel, Windsor Castle and Eton College, c.1640-1733 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Good Quire of Voices: The Provision of Choral Music at St.George's Chapel, Windsor Castle and Eton College, c.1640-1733 write by Keri Dexter. This book was released on 2019-09-25. A Good Quire of Voices: The Provision of Choral Music at St.George's Chapel, Windsor Castle and Eton College, c.1640-1733 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This title was first published in 2002: Until relatively recently, musicologists' account of church music in post-Restoration and early Georgian England has been substantially incomplete due to an almost exclusive preoccupation with the music and musicians of the Chapel Royal. The balance is now being redressed and this book begins the task of filling one of the remaining gaps in our understanding of the field. The volume represents a detailed examination of the practical workings of a choral foundation during the later 17th and early 18th centuries, placing the musicians within their wider historical and social contexts, and based on a comprehensive survey of extant archival material.
