ID - 4857314 TI - Young choristers, 650-1700 AU - Boynton, Susan AU - Rice, Eric PY - 2008 SN - 9781843834137 1843834138 9781846156830 1846156831 PB - Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer, DB - UniCat KW - Choirboys KW - Church musicians KW - Choristes KW - Musiciens d'église KW - History. KW - Training of KW - Histoire KW - Formation KW - Musiciens d'église KW - Liturgical musicians KW - Parish musicians KW - Pastoral musicians KW - Musicians KW - Choir boys KW - Singers KW - History KW - Training of&delete& KW - Music KW - History of civilization KW - anno 500-1499 KW - anno 1500-1599 KW - anno 1600-1699 KW - Choirboys - History KW - Choirboys - Training of - History KW - Church musicians - History KW - Cathedrals. KW - Chant. KW - Choristers' Training. KW - Monasteries. KW - Music Historians. KW - Musical Repertories. KW - Polyphony. KW - Religious Institutions. KW - Young Singers. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:4857314 AB - Young singers played a central role in a variety of religious institutional settings: urban cathedrals, collegiate churches, monasteries, guilds, and confraternities. The training of singers for performance in religious services was so crucial as to shape the very structures of ecclesiastical institutions, which developed to meet the need for educating their youngest members; while the development of musical repertories and styles directly reflected the ubiquitous participation of children's voices in both chant and polyphony. Once choristers' voices had broken, they often pursued more advanced studies either through an apprenticeship system or at university, frequently with the help of the institutions to which they belonged. This volume provides the first wide-ranging book-length treatment of the subject, and will be of interest to music historians - indeed, all historians - who wish to understand the role of the young in sacred musical culture before 1700. SUSAN BOYNTON is Associate Professor of Historical Musicology at Columbia University; ERIC RICE is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Connecticut at Storrs. CONTRIBUTORS: SUSAN BOYNTON, SANDRINE DUMONT, JOSEPH DYER, JANE FLYNN, ANDREW KIRKMAN, NOEL O'REGAN, ALEJANDRO PLANCHART, RICHARD RASTALL, COLLEEN REARDON, ERIC RICE, JUAN RUIZ JIMENEZ, ANNE BAGNALL YARDLEY. ER -