McMAHON, Paul

PhD Griffith University 2012 Pages:

Baroque performance practice pedogogy and the twenty-first century practitioner: the tenor repertoire of George Frideric Handel

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Link to Thesis: http://librarycatalogue.griffith.edu.au/record=b1905484

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This dissertation investigates the experiential processes in music training and performance techniques of solo tenor voice practitioners. It is informed by teaching methodologies in baroque performance practice within higher education and links theoretical phases of the research with functional aspects of music making. The dissertation also examines applied performance practice in music for the solo tenor voice by a pivotal composer of the baroque period, George Frideric Handel (1685–1759). Solo vocal literature of the baroque period forms a core component of studies in conservatoires and universities. ...

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