Ԥ 5. Every Air has (at least) three Cadences, that are all three final. Generally speaking, the Study of the Singers of the present...

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

‘I would say to you, in an entirely insinuated way, that you must make yourself sweetened [adoucir] by a mild [legere] operation, which...

The extract below from William Babbel’s ‘Suits of the most Celebrated Lessons’ (1717) shows a transcription for keyboard of the famous...

‘Sometimes there sung sixeteene or twenty men together, having their master or moderator to keepe them in order ; and when they sung...

‘I have said that the tenor of the Italians was the haute-contre of the French; at least the tenors hardly differ if...

A Gloria from an unknown mass setting by Estienne Grossin. Check out the ossia cadenza!

‘A certain soprano who was very skilled and excellent at singing in falsetto (but was not a castrato) once sang arias rising to an e’’’ ...

There remains the soprano, which is truly the ornament of all other parts, just as the bass is the foundation. The soprano...