’10… He who sings the bass, if he sings in company, is obliged to know how to keep his part firm, right, and secure: firm with regard to...
The compass of Lablache’s voice is from G in the bass to E natural, embracing but 13 notes; but the timbre, power, and vibration of his...
Signorine Guerrini and Pasqua, who took the parts of Mrs. Page and Mrs. Quickly respectively, were the best; next to them, Signorina...
"Full of care I cower unbecomingly in the cloister. I look at and listen to my lesson like a lazy fellow. The singing of the C-sol-fa...
'While this study has shown that the wax cylinder phonograph system significantly alters spectral measurements of the voice output...
‘The theatres of the ancients were vast squares, ours are vessels of small dimensions. Hence, in order to be heard in them by the...
‘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...
‘First therefore let the whole choir endeavour to control their voices, so that the words may be clearly heard and understood by the...
On the occasion of this remarkable operatic event, the most accomplished tenore robusto of his times, Dozelli, was the Otello to...
‘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...
Before leaving the subject of practising I should like to add a word as to the value of the gramophone to the intelligent student. This...
‘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...
‘Nonetheless there are others who are of the opinion that half of the note value of the syncopated semibreve is deemed to be dead—whereby...
‘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,...
‘I offer you namely my arrangement of the famous Stabat mater by Palestrina, in the original manuscript of which there were no expression...
III. Diminution Diminution occurs when larger notes are broken into many parts by the smaller ones in motion. The which must not...
