The Teaching of the Classical Italian Song-Schools, Its Decline and Restoration
Buch, Englisch, 86 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 123 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-317109-1
Verlag: OUP Oxford
This is a completely revised and expanded version of Lucie Manén's The Art of Singing: A Manual of Bel Canto (Faber Music Ltd, 1974; 2nd edition 1981). It is illuminated throughout by the author's practical and musical insights, and illustrated with exercises from original Bel Canto manuals.
`The publication of this book must surely herald a change of attitude. Lucie Manén's clear exposition of her solidly grounded theories and well-tried practice will prompt wise, healthy, and positive questioning of established methods, and should serve to bring about a long-overdue revolution in that least-regulated of all professions, the teaching of singing.' (From the Preface by Brian Trowell)
`Lucie Manén has more qualifications than any singer I have ever met for writing a Manual for singers. There have been learned books on the voice but the authors have not been singers; there have been biographies and autobiographies whose subjects have revealed a personal secret or two. But there have been few who have combined experience as a singer with a deep and wide learning so convincingly as Madame Manén.' Peter Pears