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Historical Vocal Pedagogy Classics
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The late Berton Coffin's considerable research in areas related to the art of singing has resulted in these reviews, with interpretations of vocal pedagogy classics in light of contemporary observations and findings. This volume contains a series of eighteen book reviews of the master singing teachers from Tosi (1723) to L. Lehmann (1914). Paperback edition available 2002.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Berton Coffin, 1910–1987
- Preface
- Historical Background
- 1. Pier Francesco Tosi: Observations on the Florid Song
- 2. Giambattista Mancini: Practical Reflections on the Figurative Art of Singing
- 3. Manuel Garcia I: Exercises and Method for Singing
- 4. Manuel Garcia II: Memoire on the Human Voice
- 5. Manuel Garcia II: New Treatise on the Art of Singing
- 6. Mathilde Marchesi: Theoretical and Practical Vocal Method and Ten Singing Lessons
- 7. Julius Stockhausen: Method of Singing
- 8. Enrico Delle Sedie: Esthetics of the Art of Singing and of the Melodrama
- 9. Emma Seiler: The Voice in Singing
- 10. Francesco Lamperti: A Treatise on the Art of Singing
- 11. Giovanni Battista Lamperti: The Technics of Bel Canto
- 12. William Shakespeare: The Art of Singing (Part I)
- 13. William Shakespeare: The Art of Singing (Part II)
- 14. Herbert Witherspoon: Singing
- 15. William Earl Brown: Vocal Wisdom: Maxims of G.B. Lamperti
- 16. Margaret Chapman Byers: “Sbriglia’s Method of Singing”
- 17. William Johnstone-Douglas: “The Teaching of Jean de Reszke”
- 18. Lilli Lehmann: How to Sing
- Appendix A: The Relationship of the Breath, Phonation, and Resonance in Singing
- Appendix B: A Recommendation for the Correction of Pitch Involving Performances of Singers in Opera, Oratorio, and Choral Music of the Baroque-Classic Period, 1620–1820 (American Academy of Teachers of Singing)
- Appendix C: The Tonal Art of Singing
- Appendix D: The Instrumental Resonance of the Singing Voice
- Appendix E: The Relationship of Phonation and Resonation
- Appendix F: Articulation for Opera, Oratorio, and Recital
- Appendix G: From the President
- Appendix H: The Singer’s Diction
- Appendix I: Remembering Berton Coffin (Jérôme Pruett)
- Appendix J: Biography of Berton Coffin (Mildred W. Coffin)
- Appendix K: Delle Sedie’s Modifications of the French A in the Modulated Voice of Singing
- Bibliography: Published Books and Articles by Berton Coffin
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