Tim BraithwaiteImprovising on a Plainchant (Chanter sur le Livre) as described in Early Nineteenth-Century France‘... France, where musical taste has always been somewhat backwards, has never abandoned the mania for improvising on plainchant. The...
Tim BraithwaiteHector Berlioz on the Haute-Contre (1843)‘The old masters of the French school, who never employed the head voice, wrote a part in their operas which they called haute-contre...
Tim BraithwaiteCharles Burney's Comments on a 'Bellowing' 'Coutertenor' in Paris on Thursday, 14th of June (1770)‘At five o’clock I went to the Concert Spirituel, the only public amusement allowed on these great festivals. It is a grand concert...