MALE VOICE SINGING.
The custom of sitting round a table to sing part-songs, which is Being revived in England by ( Jhe (‘English Singers, is an old one, though formal recognition of its artistic advantages was not given'until the A>eginning of the nineteenth century. Tyhis arose out of the depression in Getjmamp caused by the success of thrf armies, to relieve which Carl Frederick Zelter, the director of the Berlin Academy, got a number of men together to sing their own and other compositions. A society was formed, consisting of twenty-four singers, poets and composers, with the name “Leidertafel” or Song Table, a name which has come to indicate any male-voice choir which sings without accompaniment. This was the beginning of what is now in Germany the most popular form of choral music.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18643, 24 December 1928, Page 3
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132MALE VOICE SINGING. Star (Christchurch), Issue 18643, 24 December 1928, Page 3
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