‘What Must be Observed when Improvising a Third Part on Two Given Parts: Skilled contrapuntists occasionally want to improvise a third...

‘[Alemanno Benelli:] But because of the presumptuous audacity of performers who try to invent passaggi, I will not say sometimes, but...

‘To many in the singing profession, in fact, an investigation of past approaches seems irrelevant. Even a casual survey of recent...

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