Purcell and the seventeenth-century voice : an investigation of singers and voice types in Henry Purcell's vocal music

This thesis uses the study of Henry Purcell"s vocal music to establish the vocal characteristics of the singers and voice types for whom the composer wrote in London in the seventeenth century. This process is begun in the first chapter by discussing 'The Counter-Tenor Debate' in orde...

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Main Author: Holland, Elizabeth Jane Violet
Published: University of Sheffield 2002
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.251300