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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 11 May 2000
- ISBN 9780198166627
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages216 pages
- Size 242x162x21 mm
- Weight 535 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 6 line illustrations, numerous music examples 0
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Short description:
This book establishes the principles of interpretation that singers active in England during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries - both foreign and English - applied to recitatives, arias, and songs. It is the first single guide to historical performance of one of today's most popular repertoires.
MoreLong description:
This book establishes the principles of interpretation that singers active in England (both foreign and English) applied to recitatives, arias, and songs, by composers such as Handel, Mozart, and Rossini. Expression lay at the heart of persuasive singing during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and Robert Toft here ably places the concept and its practices in a broad cultural perspective. Singing was related closely to speaking in this period: when the techniques of delivery that were common to both arts (emphasis, accent, tone of voice, pauses, breathing, and gesture) are combined with resources peculiar to singing (portamento, messa di voce, tempo, rubato, vibrato, and ornamentation), the style which emerges differs markedly from that of the late twentieth century.
Most singers today perform the repertoire of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, but until now no book has addressed the principles which governed song performance in this period or shown how historical understandings may be used to move and delight modern audiences.
"[an] informative and fascinating look at vocal practice... [which makes] a valuable contribution to the field of performance practice... All should read this book to dispel modern myths about bel canto."
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Styles of Singing
Discovering the Proper Manner of Delivery
The Power of Sound
The tones of the passions
Registers
Vibrato
Phrasing
The expressive pause: punctuation, rests, and breathing
Staccato
Loud and Soft Singing
Messa di voce
Accent and emphasis
Tempo and its Breaches
Execution
Graces: greater elegance and deeper intensity
Appoggiatura
Acciaccatura
Mordent
Turn
Shake
Divisions
Cadenza
An Expressive Countenance: The Actor of the Passions
Heart to Heart: The Dramatic Display of Passion
The Promethean fire of eloquent expression
The language of the soul
Notes
Bibliography
Index
