Table of Contents

Introduction: A Declaration of Disinterest
The Discovery of Alfred Deller
The Ancient World to the Middle Ages
Renaissance Europe
Late Medieval and Renaissance England
Baroque Europe
Baroque England
The Nineteenth Century
The Early Twentieth Century
The Modern Counter-tenor
Bibliography

Reviews

Here is everything you always wanted to know about the voices we today call 'countertenor' . . . . It is a fascinating study.
*AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE*

This is a significant book.
*EARLY MUSIC REVIEW*

A well-balanced historical and cultural study of the high male voice from ancient Syria to the present day.
*BBC MUSIC*