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

I become nauseated when I recall some singers I have heard, whether solo or accompanied by others, improvising on a choirbook, not caring...

‘Progressive rules for daily practice proportioned to the age and ability of Pupils: The intention of this Exercise is to acquire the art...

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

‘At the present day the acquirement of flexibility is not in great esteem, and were it not, perhaps, for the venerable Handel,...

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

‘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...

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

The repugnance which the Italians have for strong and loud voices, such as our own baritones [basse-tailles] and even haute-contres...

‘If one wants to describe the sensuous impression of a voice, one says, of course, that the organ has a golden or a silvery sound, that...