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'with Passionate Voice' Gives Modern Singers Of Renaissance Music The Tools To Learn And Master The Art Of 're-creative Singing'. Providing A Much-needed Historically-informed Perspective, Author Robert Toft Discusses The Music Of Composers Ranging From Marchetto Cara To John Dowland In The Context Of Late Renaissance Rhetoric, Modal Theory, And Performance Traditions. Introduction: An Age Of Rhetorical Persuasion -- Part 1. Preparing The Text. Words Appropriately Fitted To The Notes -- Part 2. Elocutio: Fine Words And Music. Every Trope, Every Figure -- Part 3. Pronunciatio: Singing Eloquently And Acting Aptly. The Art Of Vocal Delivery; A Garden Of Embellishment; Action -- Part 4. Passionate Ayres Pronounced. The Prosopopoeia In England; Affetto Cantando And Consort Singing In Italy -- Appendix. Understanding Learned Compositions -- The Addition Of Sharps And Flats. Robert Toft. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.