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ARMGART'S VOICE PROBLEMS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2006

Grace Kehler
Grace Kehler
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McMaster University
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Abstract

In voices, time and accident may occasion great alteration.

—Charles Burney, The Present State of Music in France and Italy

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Research Article
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Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , March 2006 , pp. 147 - 166
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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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