This work includes valuable suggestions for ordinary church choir trainers to train the voices of young boys efficiently. The writer based this book of instructions on the experiences of various successful choir teachers and aimed to produce good results for church choirs. Content includes: The Healthfulness of Singing Management of the Breath The Art of Managing Choir Boys Voice Training Information on Voice-Training, collected by the Salisbury Diocesan Choral Association Pronunciation in Singing Singing by Ear and by Note Flattening, and Singing out of Tune On the Training of Boys' Voices The Special Difficulties of Agricultural Districts Notes on the Practice of various Choirmasters in Cathedrals, &c. Notes on the Practice of various Choirmasters in Parish Churches Alto Boys Schools for Choristers Concert Songs for Boys

Reproduction of the original: The Boy ́s Voice by J. Spencer Curwen

A review and record of current literature.

Drawing on an ambitious range of interdisciplinary material, including literature, musical treatises and theoretical texts, Music and the Queer Body explores the central place music held for emergent queer identities in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Canonical writers such as Walter Pater, E. M. Forster and Virginia Woolf are discussed alongside lesser-known figures such as John Addington Symonds, Vernon Lee and Arthur Symons. Engaging with a number of historical case studies, Fraser Riddell pays particular attention to the significance of embodiment in queer musical subcultures and draws on contemporary queer theory and phenomenology to show how writers associate music with shameful, masochistic and anti-humanist subject positions. Ultimately, this study reveals how literary texts at the fin de siècle invest music with queer agency: to challenge or refuse essentialist identities, to facilitate re-conceptions of embodied subjectivity, and to present alternative sensory experiences of space and time. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.