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First full-length consideration of the role played by young singers, bringing out its full significance and its development over time.
Young singers played a central role in a variety of religious institutional settings: urban cathedrals, collegiate churches, monasteries, guilds, and confraternities. The training of singers for performance in religious services was so crucial as to shape the very structures of ecclesiastical institutions, which developed to meet the need for educating their youngest members; while the development of musical repertories and styles directly reflected the ubiquitous participation of children's voices in both chant and polyphony. Once choristers' voices had broken, they often pursued more advanced studies either through an apprenticeship system or at university, frequently with the help of the institutions to which they belonged.
This volume provides the first wide-ranging book-length treatment of the subject, and will be of interest to music historians - indeed, all historians - who wish to understand the role of the young in sacred musical culture before 1700.
SUSAN BOYNTON is Associate Professor of Historical Musicology at Columbia University; ERIC RICE is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Connecticutat Storrs.
CONTRIBUTORS: SUSAN BOYNTON, SANDRINE DUMONT, JOSEPH DYER, JANE FLYNN, ANDREW KIRKMAN, NOEL O'REGAN, ALEJANDRO PLANCHART, RICHARD RASTALL, COLLEEN REARDON, ERIC RICE, JUAN RUIZ JIMENEZ, ANNE BAGNALL YARDLEY
Young singers played a central role in a variety of religious institutional settings: urban cathedrals, collegiate churches, monasteries, guilds, and confraternities. The training of singers for performance in religious services was so crucial as to shape the very structures of ecclesiastical institutions, which developed to meet the need for educating their youngest members; while the development of musical repertories and styles directly reflected the ubiquitous participation of children's voices in both chant and polyphony. Once choristers' voices had broken, they often pursued more advanced studies either through an apprenticeship system or at university, frequently with the help of the institutions to which they belonged.
This volume provides the first wide-ranging book-length treatment of the subject, and will be of interest to music historians - indeed, all historians - who wish to understand the role of the young in sacred musical culture before 1700.
SUSAN BOYNTON is Associate Professor of Historical Musicology at Columbia University; ERIC RICE is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Connecticutat Storrs.
CONTRIBUTORS: SUSAN BOYNTON, SANDRINE DUMONT, JOSEPH DYER, JANE FLYNN, ANDREW KIRKMAN, NOEL O'REGAN, ALEJANDRO PLANCHART, RICHARD RASTALL, COLLEEN REARDON, ERIC RICE, JUAN RUIZ JIMENEZ, ANNE BAGNALL YARDLEY
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Contributor: Richard Rastall
RICHARD RASTALL is Emeritus Professor of Historical Musicology at The University of Leeds and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
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Contents
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List of Illustra tions
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List of Musical Exampl es
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction Performance and Premodern Childhood
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1 Boy Singers of the Roma n Schola Cantorum
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2 Boy Singers in Medieval Monas teries and Cathedrals
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3 The Musical Education of Young Girls in Medieval English Nunneries
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4 Choirboys in Early English Religious Drama
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5 From Mozos de Coro towards Seises Boys in the Music al Li fe of Sevi lle Cathedral in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
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6 The Seeds of Medieval Music Choirboys and Musical Training in a Late-Medieval Maîtrise
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7 Choirboys in Cambra i in the Fifteenth Century
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8 Choirboys and Vicaires in the Maitrîse of Cambrai A Soci o-anthropologic al Study (1550–1670)
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9 Choirboys , Memorial Endowments, and Education at Aac hen’s Marienkirche
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10 Thomas Mulliner An App rentice of John Heywood ?
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11 Cantando tutte insieme Training Girl Singers in Early Modern Sienese Convents
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12 Choirboys in Early Modern Rome
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General Bibl iograp hy
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Index
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Keywords for this book
Young Singers; Religious Institutions; Cathedrals; Monasteries; Chant; Polyphony; Choristers' Training; Musical Repertories; Music Historians
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
