Dost Thou Know Thy Tongue’s True Tune?: Discovering the Early Opera ‘mezzo-Soprano’ Voice for Today’s Interpreters
The purpose of this article is to provide today’s operatic interpreter with the historical insight she needs to understand the early operatic female voice. In particular, it focuses on where today’s mezzo-soprano voice classification falls within the seventeenth- and early eighteenth- century operat...
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University of Western Australia
2014-03-01
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| Series: | Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://www.limina.arts.uwa.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/2517282/Alessi-article.pdf |