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...

‘The preceding examples receive their colouring from the discrimination of the singer; but a still nicer task remains for him to execute,...

‘All the singers of France have learnt the Italian style that they now call ‘French’, but cannot express perfectly the tremulous...

’Also excepted is all quick passage-work which must be executed by the human voice, unless it is supposed to be slurred. Since every note...

Tosi describes two main types of articulation for the performance of fast notes, the ‘marked’ (‘battuto’) and ‘glided’ (‘scivolo.’)

‘What the German manner of singing was like in times past may still be perceived today from the singers in choirs...