The Cambridge Companion to Singing

Singing has not proved to be the easiest form of music making to be covered in this series of Cambridge Companions. Other volumes have covered particular instruments with a relatively short historical development and, until recently at least, a fairly narrow cultural range, but singing is a world‐wide activity. Through recordings, broadcasts and travelling performers (and audiences), we can now easily hear all kinds of singing from vocalists of every culture under the sun, moon and laser. Thus we have here contributions on world music, pop, jazz, rock and rap, as well as European “art song” and opera. The...