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Young Choristers, 650-1700
Edited by Susan Boynton
Edited by Eric Rice


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 Connecticut at 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

 

DETAILS

4 b/w illustrations
Pages: 276
Size: 23.4 x 15.6
13 digit ISBN: 9781843834137
Binding: Hardback
First published: 16/Oct/2008
Price: 95.00 USD / 50.00 GBP
Imprint: Boydell Press
Series: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music
Subject: Medieval Literature

BIC class: AV

STATUS: Available
Details updated on 09/02/2010

Contents
   Introduction: Performance and Premodern Childhood
Susan Boynton and Eric Rice
1   Boy Singers of the Roman Schola Cantorum
Joseph Dyer
2   Boy Singers in Medieval Monasteries and Cathedrals
Susan Boynton
3   The Musical Education of Young Girls in Medieval English Nunneries
Anne Bagnall Yardley
4   Choirboys in Early English Religious Drama
Richard Rastall
5   From Mozos de coro towards Seises: Boys in the Musical Life of Seville
Juan Ruiz Jiménez
6   The Seeds of Medieval Music: Choirboys and Musical Training in a Late-Medie val-Maitrise
Andrew Kirkman
7   Choirboys in Cambrai in the Fifteenth Century
Alejandro Planchart
8   Choirboys and Vicaires at the Maitrise of Cambrai: A Socio-anthropol ogical Study [1550-1670]
Sandrine Dumont
9   Choirboys, Memorial Endowments and Education at Aachen's Marienkirche
Eric Rice
10   Thomas Mulliner: An Apprentice of John Heywood?
Jane E Flynn
11   Cantando tutte insieme: Training Girl Singers in Early Modern Sienese Convents
Colleen Reardon
12   Choirboys in Early Modern Rome
T Noel O'Regan

Reviews
All in all, if one has an interest in early choral music and the role child musicians played in the performance of this music, one can hardly do better than to spend a few enjoyable hours reading these thoughtful, well-researched essays. EARLY MUSIC
This is one of those books which pours fascinating light on an interesting subject that has hitherto been inadequately researched. This book has a wealth of information and will lead readers into all sorts of directions. EARLY MUSIC REVIEW
For serious students of the sociology of children in church and monastic life, this must be essential reading. CMQ

This is a truly fascinating collection...essential reading. CHURCH MUSIC QUARTERLY
The book's specific focus on children as musicians is certainly welcome. MUSIC & LETTERS



 

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