The Cambridge Companion to Choral Music

Choral musicians claim that singing has become the world's most popular form of participatory music making. In light of its growing global popularity this book was compiled to fill what the editor André de Quadros saw as an obvious gap in the Cambridge Companions to Music series. The essays presented here focus on the western choral ensemble and its rise and development worldwide. To widen the scope to include other choral traditions from around the world would, as the editor acknowledges in his introduction, result in a whole series of books. Cambridge Companions are not encyclopedias and do not claim...