A history of vocal pedagogy : intuition and science / Joseph Talia.
| Author/creator | Talia, Joseph author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Samford Valley, Qld. : Australian Academic Press, ©2017. |
| Description | 624 pages ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Vocal art: The pioneers. The new music, vocal art, and physiology -- Giovanni Camillo Maffei: the beginning of vocal physiology. Posture ; Breathing ; Articulation and resonance ; Registers -- Lodovico Zacconi: the voce mordente. Breathing ; Registers ; Articulation and cantare con la gorga -- Impact of the camerata on opera and singing. The development of solo singing ; Peri and Caccini ; Caccini's Nuove Musiche ; Voice registers -- Bertrad de Bacilly and French articulation. Breathing ; Registers ; Articulation -- Pier Francesco Tosi. Pedagogical philosophy ; Posture ; Breathing ; Articulation ; Messa di voce ; Registers ; Tosi's registers -- A brief history of the larynx. Ferrein and the larynx ; Van den Berg's register model. Chest voice ; Upper middle and head registers ; Falsetto register ; Summary: Pier Francesco Tosi -- Ansalm Bayly. Articulation ; Registration -- Johann Agricola. Resonance ; Registers and articulation -- The development of the traditional Italian school. A tale of two schools: The Bolognese and Neapolitan schools ; The Pistocchi-Bernacchi Bolognese school ; Antonio Bernacchi -- Comparison between the Italian and French school. The development of French opera ; The influence of Italian opera at the court of Louis XIV ; The Florentine intermedi and Italian bel canto ; Ballet de cour ; Airs de cour ; French drama ; Development of French pastorale ; French disappointment and Italian failure -- Jean-Baptiste Lully. Timeline of Lully's rise to prominence ; Lully's relationship with Louis XIV ; Lully's relationship with Benserade and Moliere ; Lully and the Academie Royale de Musique ; Lully's tragedie en musique ; French opera after Lully -- Jean-Phillippe Rameau. Rameau's singers ; Conclusions on the development of French opera -- The state of French singing. Breathing and articulation ; Conclusions about the French school of vocal pedagogy -- Ferrein and the new scientific revolution. Composition of the vocal folds ; Vocal fold interaction in the body cover model ; Husson's neurochronaxic theory ; Van den Berg' defence of the myoelastic, aerodynamic theory ; Hamberger's theory of intercostal function -- Jean-Antoine Berard. Berard's breathing strategy ; Chest register and voice quality ; Fundamental frequency and laryngeal position ; Summary of laryngeal position ; Articulation ; Summary of breathing technique ; Berard and the haute-contre tenor -- The Bolognese school: the next generation. The next generation. Giovanni Battista Mancini ; Mancini's physiology and breathing ; Articulation ; Posture and mouth position -- Bernardo Mengozzi and his Methode de chant. Mengozzi's sostegno method of breath management ; Articulation ; Register ; The scale -- The Nicola Porpora and the Neapolitan school. Farinelli ; Summary and analysis of the Porpora method -- The end of the Porpora era: Corri, Nathan, and Ansani. Domenico Corri ; Isaac Nathan ; Giovanni Ansani -- Luigi Lablache: the great basso profundo. Breathing ; Mouth position ; Pronunciation ; Registers ; Messa di voce ; Conclusions on Lablache -- The last castrati. Padre Giovanni Battista Martini ; Ferdinando Bertoni ; Gasparo Pacchierotti ; Lorenzo Gibelli ; Girolamo Crescentini ; Stanislao Mattei ; Giovanni Battista Velluti ; Summary of the Bolognese versus Neapolitan school -- |
| Contents | The Garcia dynasty. Manuel del populo Garcia. Summary of Manuel Garcia pere -- Manuel Patricio Garcia. Breathing ; Connection between the larynx and the pharynx ; Coup de glotte ; Garcia's vocal registers ; Women's chest register ; Women's falsetto ; Women's head register ; Summary of women's registers prior to laryngoscopic observation ; Men's chest register ; Men's falsetto ; The tenor falsetto: head voice ; Blending the male and female chest registers ; Garcia's theory of timbres and vertical laryngeal position -- Vocal emission. Placing the mouth ; Four major defects -- Garcia's development of the laryngoscope. Ascending scale ; Female falsetto -- Articulation in singing. Vowels ; Consonants -- The Lamperti dynasty. Francesco Lamperti. Lamperti's stated objective ; Posture and breathing ; Vocal attack ; Agility ; Resonance and articulation ; Emission and attack ; Pronunciation: articulation and sound ; Vocal registers ; Portamento ; Legato ; Richard Miller's description of the appoggio system ; Change is in the air -- Charles Battaille: singer, physician, and researcher. The vocal folds as a source of sound ; Battaille's vocal attack and the theory of compensation ; The low larynx and the shape of the laryngeal vestibule ; Registers ; Battaile's vertical phase difference ; The thyroarytenoid and its three muscle bundles ; Alterations in pitch and register change ; From homogeneity to fragmentation -- Emma Seiler. Laryngoscopic examination in an ascending scale -- Emile Behnke. Behnke's cricothyroid test ; Behnke's critique of Seiler's register sub-divisions. The thin register ; The small register -- Conclusions on registers ; Pressman's theory on the phenomenon of damping ; Frederick Brodnitz: the high and low mechanism ; Van den Berg's voce piena in testa ; Emma Seiler and Helmholtz's acoustics ; Vocal fold mode of vibration combined with breath pressure ; Formation of vowel sounds and consonants ; Formants and formant tuning. Vocal tract resonances ; Sundberg's formant tuning ; The singer's formant ; Summary of formants -- Seiler on resonance articulation ; Dissemination of the appoggio system ; Appoggio system -- Emile Behnke and Lennox Browne. Diaphragmatic breathing ; Summary of breathing strategy ; Vocal onset ; Vocal release ; Registers as a glottal phenomenon ; Resonance and articulation -- Morell Mackenzie. The three registers, five mechanisms model ; The two register model ; Conclusions -- Final word on Garcia's Coup de Glotte. Breathing ; Registers ; Garcia's final word on the coup de glotte ; The continuing attack on the coup de glotte ; Effectiveness or efficiency ; The non-effort school ; Local effort and non-scientific school ; A reflection on the scientific vocal onset. Myoelestaic-aerodynamic theory ; Prephonatory tuning and the voluntary control system ; Prephonatory and motoneurone setting ; The physiological constitution of the vocal folds ; Simultaneous co-coordinated or soft onset or attack ; Other forms of attack ; Breathy onset ; Hard onset ; Summary of scientific research on onset -- Vocal onset in the modern Italian school. Prephonatory preparation, breathing, and focal points ; Prephonatory preparation: timing and coordination ; Ideal onset begins with apnea ; Psychological aspects of vocal attack ; Conclusions to the Italian approach ; Conclusions ; Voice quality ensuing from vocal onset ; The elite singer's zone ; In conclusion ; The Garcia/Lamperti schools and the internationalization of the Italian school -- |
| Contents | The Garcia disciples. Marchesi's practical and theoretical vocal method. Breath management ; Posture for singing. The mouth ; Marchesi and the coup de glotte ; Registers ; Articulation -- Julius Stockhausen. Resonance ; Articulation ; Diphthongs ; Lowered larynx and coup de glotte ; Vocal attack on coup de glotte ; Lower larynx and vocal agility ; Breathing and larynx position ; Messa di voce ; Vocal registers ; Mouth position ; Portamento ; Esthetics. Baroque trillo ; Tenuta di voce ; Vocal attack ; Legato ; Staccato ; Martellato -- Summary of Stockhausen's method -- Herman Klein. Breathing ; Summary of breathing ; Vowel formation and attack ; Mental and physical preparation ; Vocal attack ; Resonance ; Legato and registers ; Messa di voce ; Portamento ; Sostenuto -- Enrico Delle Sedie. Breathing ; Vocal source and resonance ; Types of attack ; Registers -- Giovanni Battista Lamperti. Breathing ; Articulation and resonance ; Faulty resonance ; Posture and coup de glotte ; Legato ; Registers ; Messa di voce ; Giovanni's advice -- William Shakespeare. Breath and emotions ; Anatomy of breathing ; Attack, legato, and sostenuto ; Legato ; Sostenuto ; Registers. Chest register ; Medium register ; Head register -- Resonance ; Messa di voce ; Conclusions -- Herbert Witherspoon. Breathing strategy ; Vocal attack and release ; Pronunciation and resonation ; Blending chest, mouth, head resonance -- The independents. Giovanni Sbriglia. Posture and breathing ; Articulators and pronunciation ; Registers -- Jean de Reszke. Emotional stance ; Teaching philosophy ; De Reszke's strategy for vocal power ; The rise of the little voice ; Posture ; Breathing ; Lowered larynx ; Resonance: chanter dans le masque ; Vowel modifications ; Registers and resonance ; Articulators. Tongue ; The mouth and jaw ; The lips ; Messa di voce and voice development ; Summary of de Reszke ; Aftermath of the Curtis/de Reszke assault on Garcia -- Lilli Lehmann -- Enrico Caruso. Breathing ; Vocal attack and open throat ; Nasal sound ; Registers ; Emotional performance ; Conclusions on Caruso -- The Melocchi school -- Luciano Pavarotti. Vocal attack ; Registers ; Passagio ; Resonance and appoggio ; Conclusions to the Melocchi school. |
| Abstract | Beginning in 1564, with the first physiological treatise of Giovanni Camillo Maffei and ending with the remarkable development of solo singing, the Italian dictum 'chi sa respirare e pronunciare sa cantare' (He who knows how to breathe and pronounce knows how to sing) has been transformed by science into the most sophisticated and complete vocal paradigm in vocal history. In this ground-breaking work, noted tenor, teacher, researcher, and operatic director, Joseph Talia, takes us on an inspiring journey through 450 years of history tracing such important topics as the development of voice production and vocal science, the transition from the sostegno system of breath management to the appoggio system, the debate on vocal registers as a purely a glottal phenomenon, and the importance of vocal elements such as posture, messa di voce, portamento, trills, and many other coloratura techniques and ornaments. All of these are analyzed through the overarching framework of human emotions and impeccable aesthetic appeal, remembering always Tosi?s dictum that 'the heart is the greatest of teachers'. Within these pages you will find a wealth of knowledge accumulated by the great singing masters of the past such as Bernacchi, Porpora, Tosi, Mancini, the Garcías, the Lampertis, and the Marchesis, as well as the tremendous and assiduous work performed by vocal scientists throughout history by such scientists as Janwillem van den Berg, Vennard, Hirano, Fant, Ingo Titze, and Sundberg to name just a few. This book is a vital resource for voice teachers, vocal researchers, serious vocal students, and vocal connoisseurs. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 595-624). |
| ISBN | 9781922117816 paperback |
| ISBN | 1922117811 paperback |
| ISBN | 9781922117830 hardback |
| ISBN | 1922117838 hardback |
| ISBN | ebook |
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| Music | Music Stacks | ML1460 .T35 2017 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |