Tim BraithwaiteL’Abbé de Condillac on the Melody of Declamation and Recitative (1788)‘Although our declamation cannot be notated, it seems to me that one might be able to preserve it in some way. It would be sufficient if...
Tim BraithwaiteGeorg Sulzer on the Performance of Recitative‘There is a type of passionate delivery of speech that stands midway between actual song and common declamation. It occurs, like song, in...
Tim BraithwaiteGilbert Austin on the Acting of Opera Singers (1806):‘...The union of all those talents, which we have mentioned, and their bearing thus upon a single point condensed into a focus, is a...