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Informationen zum Autor Suzanne J. Beicken is Lecturer in historical musicology at the University of Maryland and is also a performer! concert manager and music administrator. She is founder of the award-winning Maryland Boys Choir. Klappentext An English translation of an important manual on vocal technique and performance in the eighteenth-century. Zusammenfassung This present edition of Johann Adam Hiller's Treatise on Vocal Performance and Ornamentation! originally published in Germany in 1780! is translated with an introduction and extensive commentary by musicologist Suzanne J. Beicken and makes this important manual on vocal technique and performance available for the first time in English. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; Translator's introduction and commentary; Treatise on Vocal Performance and Ornamentation: Preface; Dedication; 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 variations of the Aria; Appendix: biographical information on singers and composers mentioned by Hiller; Bibliography.
