Exploring the Single Line of Song by Alice Parker. If we really believed that speech underlies the song, we teachers, singers, and conductors would approach songs completely differently. Surrounded by so many insistent, clangorous sounds, we have lost touch with the primal means of expression a single line. To reawaken to the simplicity and meaning of a single line of song, Parker challenges us to explore melody and word, to sing, to ask questions of the line, to hear it in new ways, to connect with others through it. Her style of writing reflects the same transparent quality as a melody, and seems to sing itself inside the reader. 194 pp. Hardback.
