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    Tim Braithwaite

    Sabbatini on Developing the Falsetto (1789)

    ‘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...

    Tim Braithwaite

    English Psalm Singers ‘Tearing with their Throats one Wretched Stave into an Hundred Notes’: (1708)

    ‘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...

    Tim Braithwaite

    John Crompton on Suitable Voices for the Countertenor Part (1778)

    ‘Suitable voices for the middle, or counter part are rather difficult to find; but let no-one, for that reason, attempt it with a feigned...

    Tim Braithwaite

    Michael Praetorius on the Requirements of a Singer and Expected Vocal Ranges

    ‘Firstly, a singer must have a voice by nature, in which three requirements and three flaws are to be noted. The requirements are these:...

    Tim Braithwaite

    Johann Matthias Gesner’s Description of J.S. Bach Directing from the Keyboard (1732)

    ‘To Marcus Pabius Quintilianus You would think but slightly, my dear Fabius, of all these [the accomplishments of the citharists], if,...

    Tim Braithwaite

    Giovanni Camillo Maffei on Those who ‘Sing the Bass, the Tenor, and any Other Part with Great Ease.’

    ‘Thus I say, that these voices are born from the matter of the tube [throat]; and by tube [throat] I mean all the parts mentioned above,...

    Tim Braithwaite

    Leopold von Sonnleithner Remembering in 1857 Johann Vogl’s Singing and Influence on Franz Schubert

    ‘Without a doubt, [Johann] Michael Vogl stands foremost among those who recognised and promoted Schubert’s genius early on. As far as...

    Tim Braithwaite

    Anselm Bayley on Solfege and Registration

    'In teaching solfaing let the master carefully instruct the scholar how to open his mouth that the tones may come forth freely without...

     

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