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Vocal Repertoire for the Twenty-First Century is an insightful and practical interpretive guide to contemporary repertoire assembled by celebrated soprano Jane Manning. This second of the two-volume set covers works composed after the year 2000.
A propos de l'auteur
Jane Manning, OBE is a freelance singer, teacher, and academic, currently a Professor in the Vocal Studies Department of the Guildhall School of Music, and Visiting Professor at the Royal College of Music. In the U.S., she has been Visiting Professor at Mills College, and has given guest seminars at Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, MIT, New England Conservatory, Princeton, Stanford, USC and Yale. A soprano with over 50 years' experience as an internationally celebrated contemporary music performer, she holds Honorary Doctorates from the Universities of York, Keele, Durham, and Kingston, and is a Fellow of the Royal Academy and the Royal College of Music. Over the course of her career, she has given over three hundred world premieres and has worked closely with composers such as Harrison Birtwistle, Pierre Boulez, John Cage, Elliott Carter, Oliver Knussen, Peter Maxwell Davies and Judith Weir, earning her a reputation as an exemplary performer of new music. She is the author of Voicing Pierrot
(2012), New Vocal Repertory: An Introduction (OUP, 1994), and New Vocal Repertory, Vol. 2 (OUP, 1999).
Résumé
Vocal Repertoire for the Twenty-First Century is an insightful and practical interpretive guide to contemporary repertoire assembled by celebrated soprano Jane Manning. This second of the two-volume set covers works composed after the year 2000.
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Dr. Manning provides a singer's account of 160 English-language songs: insightful remarks on tessitura, vocal color, appropriate voice-type, text, interpretation, level of complexity and technical difficulty. It's the fruit of unparalleled experience in singing hundreds of vocal works over the past half-century.
