Books by Martin Ashley

This essential text covers social, physiological, musical, and pedagogical aspects of young adolescent singing, with the focus on Key Stage 3 (ages 11-14) and the progression from primary school. It uses case studies to illustrate best practice and introduces the Cambiata approach.

'A boy sings...a beautiful thing', but is it? What kinds of boy, singing what kinds of music and to whom? This work aims to present a unique consideration of boys' singing that shows the high voice to be historically, culturally and physiologically more problematic even than is commonly assumed.