Treatise on vocal performance and ornamentation / by Johann Adam Hiller ; translated and edited by Suzanne J. Beicken.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hiller, Johann Adam, 1728-1804, author.

Contributor:

Beicken, Suzanne J., editor, translator.

Series:

Cambridge musical texts and monographs.

Cambridge musical texts and monographs

Standardized Title:

Anweisung zum musikalisch-zierlichen Gesange. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Singing--Methods.

Singing.

Embellishment (Music)--Early works to 1800.

Embellishment (Music).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 199 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Treatise on Vocal Performance & Ornamentation by Johann Adam Hiller

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Hiller's Treatise on Vocal Performance and Ornamentation was published in Germany in 1780 and is an important manual on vocal technique and performance in the eighteenth century. Hiller was a masterful educator and was active not only as a teacher but as a critic, composer, conductor and music director. Thus, his observations served not only to raise the standards of singing in Germany, based on the Italian model, but to present complicated material, particularly ornamentation, in a manner that his peers, the middle class, could emulate. This present edition, translated with an introduction and extensive commentary by musicologist Suzanne J. Beicken, makes Hiller's treatise available for the first time in English. With its emphasis on practical aspects of ornamentation, declamation and style it will be valuable to instrumentalists as well as singers and is a significant contribution to the understanding of performance practice in the eighteenth-century.

Contents:

Treatise on Vocal Performance and Ornamentation

1. On the qualities of the human voice and its improvement

2. On good performance and how to use the voice

3. On good performance, with regard to text and music

4. On good performance, with regard to ornaments

5. On good performance, with regard to passaggi

6. On good performance, with regard to the various genres of vocal forms and in consideration of performing in various places

7. On cadenzas

8. On arbitrary variation of the aria

App. Biographical information on musicians mentioned by Hiller.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-189) and index.

ISBN:

9780511097416

0511097417

9781107111523

1107111528

9781280416538

128041653X

9780511174209

0511174209

9780511020810

0511020813

9780511153884

0511153880

9780511328121

0511328125

9780511481772

0511481772

9780511052408

0511052405

OCLC:

475915877

Publisher Number:

2027/heb07564 hdl