These are mostly articles and reviews that have been printed in the newsletter of the North West Early Music Forum. They are not necessarily the views of the NWEMF committee. They are all in PDF form. Do contact me if you have an article you would like to be added to this page.
- Articles
- Reviews
Reviews of Summer School
NWEMF Summer School at Ambleside July 2007 by David Fletcher
Ambleside 2006 – the twenty-fifth ‘Summer School of Renaissance Music’ – a personal view from a tenor participant By David Adshead
Summer School Ambleside 2002 by Philip Taylor
Richard Bethel organised the conference on historically informed vocal practice for
NEMA, in cooperation with the University of York. The University has now published
the proceedings of the conference on their website. In order to access the proceedings,
you should click on this link here .
The 16 essays presented on this website are re-workings
of papers given at the NEMA conference held in the University’s Music Department
on 7–10 July 2009. These proceedings make a valuable contribution towards historically
informed vocal practice. Some essays include links to vocal illustrations, using
recordings made at the University or taken from external sources. In addition, two
contributions (those from Elisabeth Belgrano and myself) include an illustrated video
and/or embedded sound
clips providing essential support to the authors’ arguments.
Taken collectively, the essays certainly cover most of the conference themes flagged
up in our “call for papers” (see website introduction). However, vocal vibrato (tackled
by four contributors) was by far the most popular and controversial topic.