Tenor : history of a voice / John Potter.
By: Potter, John (Tenor)
Language: Unknown language code Publisher: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2009]Description: xi, 305 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780300118735 (paperback)Subject(s): Tenors (Singers) -- History | Singing -- HistoryGenre/Form: NonfictionDDC classification: LOC classification: ML1400 | P68 2009Other classification:| Item type | Current location | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| Book | PLM | PLM Circulation Section | Circulation-Circulating | ML 1400 P68 2009 (Browse shelf) | Available | 37642 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [292]-293) and index.
Includes Web resources.
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 -- Notes --Tenorography -- Audio, video and website sources -- Select bibliography -- Index.
700-799 Fine Arts and Recreation
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