“The Finest Voice of the Century”1

Fuller, Sophie

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195365870.003.0017

The Arts of the Prima Donna in the Long Nineteenth Century 2012

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195365870.003.0017

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“The Finest Voice of the Century”1

Sophie Fuller¹

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Making an English Voice: Performing National Identity during the English Musical Renaissance

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2016

Twentieth-Century Music

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This article examines constructions of national musical identity in early twentieth-century Britain by exploring and contextualizing hitherto neglected discourses and practices concerning the production of an ‘English’ singing voice. Tracing the origins and development of ideas surrounding native vocal performance and pedagogy, I reconstruct a culture of English singing as a backdrop against which to offer, by way of conclusion, a reading of the ‘English voice’ performed in Ralph Vaughan Williams's song ‘Silent Noon’. By drawing upon perspectives derived from recent studies of song, vocal production, and national and aesthetic identity, I demonstrate that ‘song’ became a place in which the literal and figurative voices of performers and composers were drawn together in the making of a national music. As such, I advance a series of new historical perspectives through which to rethink notions of an English musical renaissance.

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Making an English Voice: Performing National Identity during the English Musical Renaissance

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Twentieth-Century Music

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