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From the PREFACE. The adult male alto is what may be styled an ecclesiastical voice. It is not much used outside of church choirs, and it has most unfortunately, and ignorantly, been confounded with a tabooed voice, from which, scientifically, it is completely dissociated. Consequently the subject treated in the following pages is not a popular one. Notwithstanding the enormous advance made by male choirs in recent years, a large majority of musicians, voice trainers, organists, choirmasters, music critics, etc., are not interested therein. A goodly number are actively opposed to ecclesiastical tradition, and to any further growth in the boy choir movement, as it is sometimes (and very erroneously) called. A topic that appeals only to the minority, and is sniffed at by the majority, is not one that a writer embraces with avidity. Perhaps it is for this reason that so little has been written about the Counter-tenor. Ridicule and abuse are valuable enough in their way, and often serve important educative ends, but the Counter-tenor voice has suffered from an over-dose of these correctives. The readers of this book may not side with the author in the views presented. But on two salient particulars they will agree with him. The first is that the multiplication of male choirs has caused a coincident demand for adult male altos - a demand that must be filled. And the second is that progress in any department of knowledge is not made by dodging the issues involved, and by keeping silence.

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