‘The theatres of the ancients were vast squares, ours are vessels of small dimensions. Hence, in order to be heard in them by the...

‘First therefore let the whole choir endeavour to control their voices, so that the words may be clearly heard and understood by the...

‘We discoursed upon the subject of Dr. Burney’s travels, of which he was a professed admirer; and mentioned with great approbation that...

‘When Handel went through Chester, in his way to Ireland, this year 1741, I was at the Public-School in the city, and very well remember...

'Few have understood, how this Measure can be exhibited to the ears without a percussion, or stroke, in Musick, very diminute and of many...

‘Ten notes are said to be natural to every voice, because ordinarily all singers come to produce them with a voice that is said to be of...

‘Although manuscript collections of solfeggi were centerpieces in the training of musicians in the days of Bach and Mozart, today the...

‘Although they are set only in the system of the cantus, these examples of accentus and variation of intervals can be used in the other...

'The Strascino [slide] (which is the continued plasma of the Ancients, and which is done by raising or lowering continuously the voice,...

‘A great defect into which some of the best modern singers have fallen is that of having introduced florid ornaments into recitative,...

‘The reasons why professional musicians have failed to apply our very extensive and ever-increasing knowledge of Classical- and...

‘As for singing on the book in many parts made impromptu, my sentiment is that it is almost impossible to do well… I maintain that it is...

‘Now let us proceed to teach a man to Trillo, and what he must do, for to come to do it well. The first Trial is as follows. Let any...

‘As for the disposition of the words under the notes, it is necessary to take great care to set them so well, that not only no barbarism...

‘But the greatest Difficulty is to sound every Note according to its due Measure of Time; and here it is that the Singers in most Country...

'As for singing upon a plainsong, it has been in times past in England, as every man knows, and is at this day in other places, the...

‘Singing on the book. A Plainchant or counterpoint in four parts, which the musicians compose and sing impromptu on a single [part]:...

‘Then out the People yawl an hundred Parts, Some roar, some whine, some creak like the Wheels of Carts; Such Notes the Gam-ut yet did...

Question. How can one remedy the fault that a choir, when it sings a well-known church chorale without sheet music, as must often happen,...

'Among the compositions made above a cantus firmus by the masters of the art, those [made] above introits are unique, and are used...