Investigating the timbres of voices, the enunciation of words, the use of vibrato, I Saw Eternity the Other Night provides an original answer to this question and illuminates the ways in which the singing of all human beings, in whatever style, reflects in profound and subtle ways their preoccupations and attitudes to life.
Timothy Day was for many years Curator of Western Art Music in the British Library's Sound Archive. He has written and lectured widely on English cathedral music, was a visiting senior research fellow at King's College, London 2006-11, and served on the Management Committee of the Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music. For his work on this book, he was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship. His previous books include A Century of Recorded Music- Listening to Musical History and Hereford Choral Society- An Unfinished History.
The King's choir's glory years under Ord and Willcocks are at the
heart of Day's massive, impeccably researched book. Its scope,
however, is far wider. ... The sound is a 20th-century British
invention, which - because it coincided with the rise of
broadcasting and recording - went on to conquer the world.
*The Times*
This eye-opening - and ear-opening - book ... investigates the
creation of a style, and the evolution of a tradition, that now
feels as anciently English as the tentacular late-Gothic stonework
of King's chapel itself. Along the way, Day's meticulous history of
a special choral sound opens out into an exploration of the
ever-shifting bonds between music and society, and art and
faith.
*Arts Desk*
Magisterial but extremely readable ... full of fascinating detail
and shrewd insights
*Choir & Organ*
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