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Why do we sing and what first drove early humans to sing? How might they have sung and how might those styles have survived to the present day? This history addresses these questions and many more, examining singing as a historical and cross-cultural phenomenon. It explores the evolution of singing in a global context - from Neanderthal Man to Auto-tune via the infinite varieties of world music from Orient to Occident, classical music from medieval music to the avant-garde and popular music from vaudeville to rock and beyond. Considering singing as a universal human activity, the book provides an in-depth perspective on singing from many cultures and periods: Western and non-Western, prehistoric to present. Written in a lively and entertaining style, the history contains a comprehensive reference section for those who wish to explore the topic further and will appeal to an international readership of singers, students and scholars.

Music --- Singing --- Chant --- History. --- Histoire --- Vocal music --- History and criticism.

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Dit boek bestudeert het werk van de dertiende-eeuwse mystica Hadewijch op het kruispunt van oraliteit, verschriftelijking, memoria en meditatie. Vertrouwd als ze is met de nog bestaande orale zang- en vertelcultuur in het Hongaars sprekende deel van Roemenië en met de middeleeuwse muziek, kan Anikó Daróczi aannemelijk maken dat Hadewijch haar mystieke ervaringen uitdrukte met behulp van in het geheugen en zintuigen ingeprente verbale formules en melodiebewegingen, en dan niet alleen in haar poëzie, maar ook in haar proza. Het gaat hier om een zingend spreken vanuit een levende traditie, die niet alleen het hoofd, maar het hele lichaam van de auteur beheerst. Dit zingend spreken wil de hele persoonlijkheid van de lezer (die in de middeleeuwse leescultuur ook altijd een toehoorder is) raken, zodat deze zich de tekst in lectio en meditatio kan toe-eigenen. Eén keer dat dit inzicht gerijpt is, worden vele kenmerken van Hadewijchs taal duidelijk: het registrale karakter van Hadewijchs poëzie; de vele 'citaten' in haar teksten uit de Bijbel en uit de Latijnse en volkstalige literatuur; de inbreuken tegen de syntaxis die de filologen op de proef stellen; en vooral het zeer bijzondere ritme van haar proza, dat in één berucht geval (Brief 28) zo overheersend en allesbepalend wordt, dat verschillende Hadewijchspecialisten deze tekst - in weerwil van de handschriftellijke overlevering - aan de Brabantse mystica menen te moeten ontzeggen. Dit boek overstijgt het belang van de Hadewijchstudie omdat het kritische vragen stelt over de pertinentie van de in de medioneerlandistiek vigerende filologische methode.

Hadewijch --- Oral communication in literature. --- Singing in literature. --- Hadewijch, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Technique --- Oral communication in literature --- Singing in literature --- Hadewich, --- Hadewych, --- Hadewych

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A primary mode for the creation and dissemination of poetry in Renaissance Italy was the oral practice of singing and improvising verse to the accompaniment of a stringed instrument. Singing to the Lyre is the first comprehensive study of this ubiquitous practice, which was cultivated by performers ranging from popes, princes, and many artists, to professionals of both mercantile and humanist background. Common to all was a strong degree of mixed orality based on a synergy between writing and the oral operations of memory, improvisation, and performance. As a cultural practice deeply rooted in language and supported by ancient precedent, cantare ad lyram (singing to the lyre) is also a reflection of Renaissance cultural priorities, including the status of vernacular poetry, the study and practice of rhetoric, the oral foundations of humanist education, and the performative culture of the courts reflected in theatrical presentations and Castiglione's Il cortegiano.

History of Italy --- poetry --- singing --- anno 500-1499 --- Poetry --- Italian literature --- Vocal music --- Italian poetry --- Folk poetry, Italian --- Humanism --- History and criticism. --- Italy --- Civilization --- singing [perfoming arts genre] --- Electronic books

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French literature --- Marais, Marin, --- Human sounds --- Throat --- Diaphragm --- Larynx --- Singing and voice culture --- Vocal culture --- Beatboxing --- Throat singing --- Marais, Marin --- -Speaking --- Composers --- Music --- Compositeurs --- Musique --- Biography --- Miscellanea --- Biographies --- Miscellanées --- Singing --- Voice --- Speaking --- Language and languages --- Elocution --- Phonetics --- Speech --- Physiological aspects --- Performance --- Marin-Marais, --- Marais, M. --- Marais, Marin, - 1656-1728 --- Esthétique --- Philosophie

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Music --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Sociology of culture --- Mediterranean countries --- Ethnomusicology. --- Gender identity in music. --- Women musicians --- History and criticism. --- Race --- Gender --- Musicians --- Religion --- Singing --- Book --- Culture --- Dancing