{"product_id":"young-choristers-650-1700-9781843834137","title":"Young Choristers, 650-1700","description":"\u003cb\u003eFirst full-length consideration of the role played by young singers, bringing out its full significance and its development over time.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYoung 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 advanced studies either through an apprenticeship system or at university, frequently with the help of the institutions to which they belonged.\u003cbr\u003e This volume provides  the first wide-ranging book-length treatment of the subject, and will be of interest to music historians - indeed, all historians - who wish to understand the role of the young  in sacred musical culture before 1700.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e SUSAN BOYNTON is Associate Professor of Historical Musicology at Columbia University; ERIC RICE is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Connecticut at Storrs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e CONTRIBUTORS: SUSAN BOYNTON, SANDRINE DUMONT, JOSEPH DYER, JANE FLYNN, ANDREW KIRKMAN, NOEL O'REGAN, ALEJANDRO PLANCHART, RICHARD RASTALL, COLLEEN REARDON, ERIC RICE, JUAN RUIZ JIMENEZ, ANNE BAGNALL YARDLEY","brand":"Susan Boynton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280369856763,"sku":"9781843834137","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781843834137.jpg?v=1772487471","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/young-choristers-650-1700-9781843834137","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}