Introduction Part I. Imagined Voices: Mythology and Muses Part II. Historical Voices: 1. The genesis of the Western tradition 2. The emerging soloist and the primacy of text 3. The age of the virtuoso 4. The nineteenth-century revolution Part III. Recorded Voices: 5. A great tradition: singing through history - history through singing 6. Classical singing in the twentieth century: recording and retrenchment 7. Post-classical: beyond the mainstream 8. The emancipation of the popular voice 9. Sung and unsung: singers and songs of the non English-speaking world Part IV. Sources and Reference: 10. Sources Bibliography.
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