This article examines constructions of national musical identity in early twentieth-century Britain by exploring and contextualizing hitherto neglected discourses and practices concerning the production of an ‘English’ singing voice. Tracing the origins and development of ideas surrounding native vocal performance and pedagogy, I reconstruct a culture of English singing as a backdrop against which to offer, by way of conclusion, a reading of the ‘English voice’ performed in Ralph Vaughan Williams's song ‘Silent Noon’. By drawing upon perspectives derived from recent studies of song, vocal production, and national and aesthetic identity, I demonstrate that ‘song’ became a place in which the literal and figurative voices of performers and composers were drawn together in the making of a national music. As such, I advance a series of new historical perspectives through which to rethink notions of an English musical renaissance.

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发出英语的声音：在英国音乐复兴期间表现国家认同

本文通过探索和情境化迄今为止被忽视的有关“英语”歌声产生的话语和实践，考察了 20 世纪早期英国国家音乐身份的构建。追溯围绕本土声乐表演和教学法的想法的起源和发展，我重建了一种英语歌唱文化作为背景，作为结论，我提供了对拉尔夫·沃恩·威廉姆斯的歌曲“沉默”中的“英语声音”的解读中午'。通过借鉴最近对歌曲、声乐制作以及民族和审美认同的研究的观点，我证明了“歌曲”成为了一个地方，在其中，表演者和作曲家的文字和形象的声音在制作民族音乐时被汇集在一起. 因此，