Young Choristers, 650-1700

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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 advance.  Read more... ""FRONTCOVER"" ""CONTENTS"" ""LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS"" ""LIST OF MUSICAL EXAMPLES"" ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS"" ""INTRODUCTION: Performance and Premodern Childhood"" ""1. The Boy Singers of the Roman Schola Cantorum"" ""2. Boy Singers in Medieval Monasteries and Cathedrals"" ""3. The Musical Education of Young Girls in Medieval English Nunneries"" ""4. Choirboys in Early English Religious Drama"" ""5. From Mozos de coro towards Seises: Boys in the Musical Life of Seville Cathedral in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries"" ""6. The Seeds of Medieval Music: Choirboys and Musical Training in a Late-Medieval Maîtrise""""7. Choirboys in Cambrai in the Fifteenth Century"" ""8. Choirboys and Vicaires at the Maîtrise of Cambrai: A Socio-anthropological Study (1550â€?1670)"" ""9. Choirboys, Memorial Endowments and Education at Aachenâ€?s Marienkirche"" ""10. Thomas Mulliner : An Apprentice of John Heywood?"" ""11. Cantando tutte insieme : Training Girl Singers in Early Modern Sienese Convents"" ""12. Choirboys in Early Modern Rome"" ""GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY "" ""INDEX"" ""BACKCOVER""