With Passionate Voice: Re-Creative Singing In Sixteenth-Century England And Italy

'With Passionate Voice' gives modern singers of Renaissance music the tools to learn and master the art of 're-creative singing'. Providing a much-needed historically-informed perspective, author Robert Toft discusses the music of composers ranging from Marchetto Cara to John Dowland in the context of late Renaissance rhetoric, modal theory, and performance traditions.

• | Author: Robert Toft
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 02, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 344 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0199382034
• | ISBN-13: 9780199382033