Historical Vocal Pedagogy Classics

The late Berton Coffin's considerable research in areas related to the art of singing has resulted in these reviews, with interpretations of vocal pedagogy classics in the light of contemporary observations and findings. This volume contains a series of eighteen book reviews of the master singing teachers from Tosi (1723) to L. Lehmann (1914). Paperback edition available 2002.

Berton Coffin, 1910-1987

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Preface

ix

Historical Background

xv

Pier Francesco Tosi: Observations on the Florid Song

1

(5)

Giambattista Mancini: Practical Reflections on the Figurative Art of Singing

6

(6)

Manuel Garcia I: Exercises and Method for Singing

12

(7)

Manuel Garcia II: Memoire on the Human Voice

19

(6)

Manuel Garcia II: New Treatise on the Art of Singing

25

(6)

Mathilde Marchesi: Theoretical and .Practical Vocal Method and Ten Singing Lessons

31

(6)

Julius Stockhausen: Method of Singing

37

(6)

Enrico Delle Sedie: Esthetics of the Art of Singing and of the Melodrama

43

(6)

Emma Seiler: The Voice in Singing

49

(8)

Francesco Lamperti: A Treatise on the Art of Singing

57

(6)

Giovanni Battista Lamperti: The Technics of Bel Canto

63

(7)

William Shakespeare: The Art of Singing (Part 1)

70

(7)

William Shakespeare: The Art of Singing (Part II)

77

(7)

Herbert Witherspoon: Singing

84

(7)

William Earl Brown: Vocal Wisdom: Maxims of G.B. Lamperti

91

(7)

Margaret Chapman Byers: ``Sbriglia's Method of Singing''

98

(6)

William Johnstone-Douglas: ``The Teaching of Jean de Reszke''

104

(8)

Lilli Lehmann: How to Sing

112

(10)

Appendix A: The Relationship of the 'Breath, Phonation, and Resonance in Singing

122

(22)

Appendix B: A Recommendation for the Correction of Pitch Involving Performances of Singers in Opera, Oratorio, and Choral Music of the Baroque-Classic Period, 1620-1820 (American Academy of Teachers of Singing)

144

(5)

Appendix C: The Tonal Art of Singing

149

(4)

Appendix D: The Instrumental Resonance of the Singing Voice

153

(26)

Appendix E: The Relationship of Phonation and Resonation

179

(26)

Appendix F: Articulation for Opera, Oratorio, and Recital

205

(33)

Appendix G: From the President

238

(44)

Appendix H: The Singer's Diction

282

(6)

Appendix I: Remembering Berton Coffin (Jerome Pruett)

288

(3)

Appendix J: Biography of Berton Coffin (Mildred W. Coffin)

291

(9)

Appendix K: Delle Sedie's Modifications of the French A in the Modulated Voice of Singing

300

(2)

Bibliography: Published Books and Articles by Berton Coffin

302

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