‘At 5 o'clock I attended a rehearsal at the Thomas School. The cantor Hauptmann had the grand double-choir motet (by Bach) Singet dem...

On the occasion of this remarkable operatic event, the most accomplished tenore robusto of his times, Dozelli, was the Otello to...

‘I offer you namely my arrangement of the famous Stabat mater by Palestrina, in the original manuscript of which there were no expression...

‘2. To produce a good note, the singer should be in an easy posture, with his head upright and his shoulders back, so as to allow the...

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

‘A few trials will suffice to prove that every shade of passion, however slight, will effect in a peculiar way the physical condition,...

'In regard to the accommodation of the melody to the natural pitch of the vowel sounds, the composer is assisted by the spirit of the...

‘How often may the master [Palestrina] himself have conducted it [the Missa Papae Marcelli] with sublime enthusiasm, full of the fire...

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

The time table of daily duty was, 9 to 9.45, scale practice; 10 to 11, morning service; 11 to 12.30 or 1, music practice; 2 to 3.45,...

‘To many in the singing profession, in fact, an investigation of past approaches seems irrelevant. Even a casual survey of recent...

'The fragment of recitative [below] has two effects. By the words, “Io credeva che alcuno,” Desdemona expresses the depression that...

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,...

In altering or re-arranging words, or syllables, care should be taken to retain and mark the measure or accent of a melody, and only...

‘It is a sad, but nevertheless undeniable truth, that the art of singing is in a terrible state of decadence; and this fact is all the...

‘...The union of all those talents, which we have mentioned, and their bearing thus upon a single point condensed into a focus, is a...

‘ARTICLE V. OF THE QUALITIES OF THE VOICE. Q. How many different qualities are there in the voice ? A. The principal are two, the open...

‘You may observe, that the different tones of the voice are produced by the different positions which the larynx assumes in its rising...

‘A few trials will suffice to prove that every shade of passion, however slight, will effect in a peculiar way the physical condition,...

‘I know of no musician today who has any idea what it means to sing on the book. It was an improvised and simultaneous melody [chant]...