Peter Phillips on How To Conduct and Sing Polyphony
We would like to draw your attention to the online publication of a new article by Peter Phillips (Tallis Scholars) that appears in the Fall 2006 issue of Sacred Music. Its title is: The Cult of the Conductor. Mr. Phillips takes on the most of the common assumptions made about choral music and says that they do not apply to sacred polyphony.
Many of the assumptions which underlie so much traditional music-making will not do for polyphony. The participating voices may be trained these days—if they are to survive the schedules the Tallis Scholars undertake they have to know how their voices work—but not in the operatic tradition of the individual above everything. Polyphony is a cooperative effort for everyone involved, and the first responsibility of the singer is to learn to blend with whoever else may be on the same line: this is not a place for the hero mentality. READ MORE
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