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The Supernatural Voice - A History of High Male Singing (Hardcover)
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The Supernatural Voice - A History of High Male Singing (Hardcover)
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Covering a period from the Ancient World to the present day, the
book suggests that until very recently, falsettists and
counter-tenors have been distinct vocal genres. `The use of high
male voices in the past has long been one of the most seriously
misunderstood areas of musical scholarship and practice. In opening
up this rich subject (to readers of all sorts) with refreshingly
clear perspectives and plenty of new material, Simon Ravens'
well-researched book goes a very long way to rectifying matters.
Ravens writes damnably well, and if the story that emerges is
necessarily a complex one, his treatment of it is always engagingly
comprehensible.' ANDREW PARROTT Tracing the origins, influences and
development of falsetto singing in Western music, Simon Ravens
offers a revisionist history of high male singing from the Ancient
Greeks to Michael Jackson. This history embraces not just singers
of counter-tenor and alto parts up to and including our own time
but the castrati of the Ancient world, the male sopranists of late
Medieval and Renaissance Europe, and the dual-register tenors of
the Baroque and Classical periods. Musical aesthetics aside, to
understand the changing ways men have sung high, it is also vital
to address extra-musical factors - which are themselves in a state
of flux. Tothis end, Ravens illuminates his chronological survey by
exploring topics as diverse as human physiology, the stereotyping
of national characters, gender identity, and the changing of boys'
voices. The result is a complex and fascinating history sure to
appeal not only to music scholars but to performers and all those
with an interest particularly in early music. Simon Ravens is a
performer, writer, and director of Musica Contexta, with whom hehas
performed in Britain and Europe, regularly broadcast, and made
numerous acclaimed recordings. Ravens had previously founded and
directed Australasia's foremost early music choir, the Tudor
Consort. Between 2002 and 2007 his regular monthly column Ravens
View appeared in the Early Music Review, to which he still
regularly contributes.
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