EUGÉNE YSAYË

Justin Fiacconi
Aug 31, 2018 · 4 min read

The human voice and the hand-made instrument are obviously the twin origins of music. Folk-singers and instrumentalists soon joined forces and, over time, composers enlarged their palette to handle vast canvases, like that of Mahler in his Symphony of a Thousand. By comparison with that monstrosity, a single line of music, as in Gregorian chant, might seem, to some, rather impoverished. Yet the monodic is not necessarily monotonous. The solo voice, unaccompanied…

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"Alphabeticon" is a series of small books about men and women, past and present, who have been important in various fields of human endeavour, such as the arts and sciences, politics, religion, sport, and so on. Each volume contains twenty-six chapters; alphabetically arranged.

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