Perfect Italian Diction for Singers
Perfect Italian Diction for Singers

Author: Timothy Cheek

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2022-09-30

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 153816342X

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Perfect Italian Diction for Singers: An Authoritative Guide provides the steps and tools for singing beautifully and expressively in this language. Timothy Cheek and Anna Toccafondi systematically home in on the essential features of the most beautiful Italian, pitfalls of non-native singers, and how to overcome those issues. In addition to delving to the heart of Italian sounds and inflection, they present controversies, misconceptions, and various approaches—often conflicting—that have arisen throughout the last century. Chapters also address: Italian style and legato Best use of supplemental resources and dictionaries Recitative with suggested, short Mozart excerpts Working with text Singing diphthongs, triphthongs, and hiatus Also included are a plethora of audio and video examples and exercises (over seventy QR codes), exercises for group or self-study, and self-assessment summaries. This book will help singers and students lay a solid foundation in beautiful, lyric Italian.

Classical and Romantic Music
Classical and Romantic Music

Author: David Milsom

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13: 1351571753

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This volume brings together twenty-two of the most diverse and stimulating journal articles on classical and romantic performing practice, representing a rich vein of enquiry into epochs of music still very much at the forefront of current concert repertoire. In so doing, it provides a wide range of subject-based scholarship. It also reveals a fascinating window upon the historical performance debate of the last few decades in music where such matters still stimulate controversy.

The History of Music: Volume 2
The History of Music: Volume 2

Author: Emil Naumann

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-06-27

Total Pages: 667

ISBN-13: 1108061648

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Scholar and composer Emil Naumann (1827-88) studied with Mendelssohn. This two-volume English translation of his best-known work was made by Ferdinand Praeger (1815-91) and published in 1888. Chapters on music in England have been added by its editor, the eminent Victorian musician Sir Frederick Gore Ouseley (1825-89).

Practical Method of Italian Singing
Practical Method of Italian Singing

Author: Nicola Vaccai

Publisher: Ravenio Books

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 42

ISBN-13:

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Anyone who wishes to sing really well should begin by learning how to sing in Italian, not only because the Italian school of vocalisation is acknowledged to be superior to all others, but also on account of the language itself, where the pure and sonorous tone of its many vowel sounds will assist the singer in acquiring a fine voice-production and a clear and distinct enunciation in any language he may have to sing, no matter what may be his nationality.