Music Performance

Vocal Method (Metodo practico di canto italiano)

(Vocal Method). These famous methods are now available with piano accompaniments.

The two sets of Old American Songs are beloved, standard vocal literature. This edition combines both sets in one publication, available for the first time with online audio of piano accompaniments. Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and more. Contents: FIRST SET: The Boatmen's Dance * The Dodger * Long Time Ago * Simple Gifts * I Bought Me a Cat * SECOND SET: The Little Horses * Zion's Walls * The Golden Willow Tree * At the River * Ching-a-ring Chaw

The two sets of Old American Songs are beloved, standard vocal literature. This edition combines both sets in one publication, available for the first time with online recorded piano accompaniments. Contents: FIRST SET: The Boatmen's Dance * the Dodger * Long Time Ago * Simple Gifts * I Bought Me a Cat * SECOND SET: The Little Horses * Zion's Walls * The Golden Willo Tree * At the River * Ching-a-ring Chaw

v. 1 - Songs to older poets, part 1 -- v. 2 - Songs to older poets, part 2 -- v. 3 - Songs to older poets, part 3 - And wilt thou leave me thus - Have you seen but a white lily grow - Away to Twiver - Romance - Hey, troly loly lo - Good ale - Piggesnie -- v. 4 - Songs to later poets.

Volume 1, 1861-1882 : 34 songs for voice and piano -- Volume 3, The complete Verlaine settings (1887-1894) : 17 songs for voice and piano.
ncludes preface in English, French, and German, and critical commentary in English.
"Audio backing tracks available online"--Cover.
French words; also printed as text with English and German translations.

Austrian composer Hugo Wolf (1860–1903) composed 53 songs set to words of the German poet Eduard Mörike. Although Wolf composed in other forms, his fame rests almost entirely on his songs. Austrian composer Hugo Wolf (1860–1903) composed 53 songs set to words of the German poet Eduard Mörike. Although Wolf composed in other forms, his fame rests almost entirely on his songs. Highly original, intuitive, intensely dramatic, Wolf's musical interpretations perfectly matched Mörike's complex, quasi-symbolic style. Included are new literal prose translations of the lyrics, as well as alphabetical lists of song titles and a glossary of German musical terms.

Although better known for his symphonies, sonatas, quartets, and other instrumental forms, Beethoven was an important composer of songs during a key formative period of the genre. This collection features the vast majority of his songs — 71 of 90 — including such recital favorites as "Adelaide," "Wonne der Wehmuth," and "Die Ehre Gottes aus der Natur," plus all the songs in the famous cycle, "An die ferne Geliebte" ("To the Distant Beloved"), which is regarded as the first true song cycle by a major composer.

This Dover volume contains a rich selection of 36 of Debussy's best songs. "Beau Soir," "Deux romances," "Mandoline," "Les Angelus," "Trois chansons de Bilitis," "Dans le jardin," "Cinq poemes de Baudelaire," and more. For singers, Debussy's songs offer special pleasure in their simplicity, making the song's message more easily conveyed. For pianists, the music presents interesting and independent melodies that contribute vastly to the atmosphere and expression of the text.

In this volume are 40 songs, charming and varied in mood, ranging over Mozart's entire career. Included are many longtime favorites with singers and audiences, among them such gems as "Abendempfindung" (K.523), the sportive "Die Alte" (K.517), "Sehnsucht nach dem Fruhlinge" (K.596), and "Das Veilchen" (K.476), an exquisite setting of Goethe's poem. This volume includes line-for-line translations of all German, French, and Italian texts.

This score incorporates the composer's final intentions regarding West Side Story. The engraving of this score is based on Leonard Bernstein's conducting score for his 1984 Deutsche Grammophon recording of 'West Side story', as well as the orchestra material used in that recording, and the manuscripts of Leonard Bernstein at the Library of Congress

A comprehensive manual that deals with all aspects of singing, from the physiology and acoustics of the singing voice to career-building. It is divided into four main sections -- vocal technique, style and interpretation, professional preparation, and vocal pedagogy.

The Alexander Technique for Musicians is a unique guide for all musicians, providing a practical, informative approach to being a successful and comfortable performer. Perfect as an introduction to the Alexander Technique, or to supplement the reader's lessons, the book looks at daily and last-minute practice, breathing, performance and performance anxiety, teacher-pupil relationships, ensemble skills, and the application of the Alexander Technique to instrumental and vocal work. It includes diagrams and photographs to aid the learning process, as well as step-by-step procedures and diary entries written by participating students.

This collection of essays with contributions spanning six continents illustrates the range of approaches to contemporary voice studies. Authors consider the processes of teaching or writing for voice, the performance of voice in theatre, live art, music, and on recordings, and the experience of voice in acoustic perception and research. Topics include voice training from the Alexander Technique to practice-as-research; operatic and extended voices in early baroque and contemporary underwater singing; voices across cultures, from site-specific choral performance in Kentish mines and Australian sound art, to the laments of Kraho Indians, Korean pansori and Javanese wayang.

Talia identifies the research conducted on the singing voice and explains how research is pertinent to voice pedagogy. From the contribution of early vocal scientists, including Ferrein, Müller, García, Mandl and Helmholtz to the contemporary scientists, van den Berg, Bouhuys, Fant, Hixon, Rothenberg, Rubin, Appelman, Vennard, Miller, Sundberg, Titze and many others, he recognises the value of studies in physiology and science but says this knowledge must be combined with “imagination, creativity and intuitive impulse”. Three appendices offers anatomic information and diagrams.

John Potter, a singer with the Hilliard Ensemble and Red Byrd, asks a number of questions in this history of singing style. Why do singers sing in the way they do? Why, for example, is western classical singing so different from pop singing? How is it that Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé could sing together? His book identifies particular historical 'moments of change' in singing technique and style, and relates these to a three-stage theory of style based on the relationship of singing to text.

This book focuses on the principles and applications of the Alexander Technique and how they can be used to influence and affect the teaching of voice. Maria Weiss compares the Alexander Technique with various body-mind techniques and uses sources from well-known vocal teachers, to show that the principles of F. M. Alexander's teachings can be discovered in vocal writings. Topics include 'posture', breathing, practicing and performing from the view of F. M. Alexander, various Alexander teachers, body-mind techniques, vocal teachers and singers.

This first historical overview of vocal performance practice and style ever published, provides an introduction to how ornamentation, vibrato, rubato, portamento, articulation, tempo, language, and accompaniment with period instruments have been handled since the seventeenth century. Each chapter presents a historical period and gives background information on the singers and composers, the vocal repertoire, and the stylistic conventions of that time. From the Baroque period to the present, it brings together information from historical treatises, personal accounts from composers, performers, historians, critics, and current scholarly commentary into one convenient handbook.

The song recital -- Program building -- Constructing sample programs -- More sample programs -- The unique needs of the young artist -- The singing actor -- The accompanist -- Recital tactics and strategies -- Research -- Methods of study and memorization -- New music -- Vocal ensemble music -- The song cycle -- Folk music and popular music -- The future of the song recital.
Appendix. Repertoire lists by composer. Repertoire lists by voice and instruments (p. 303-569).

In this book the author tackles problems raised during hundreds of his master classes and pedagogy courses. He concentrates on specific, recurring questions organized under ten broad topics in four parts: Breath management, Posture, Laryngeal and intra-laryngeal function and Resonance balancing.

One of the greatest singing actors of her time, Jarmila Novotná (1907--1994) was an internationally known opera soprano from the former Czechoslovakia and considered a pioneering "crossover" star who performed on Broadway, and worked in radio and television with Bing Crosby and Abbott and Costello. This self-portrait offers a window on history and the reflections of a captivating and supremely talented figure who left an indelible mark on the performing arts.

Chapters:
The Beverly Sills phenomenon -- From early life to breakthrough -- From breakthrough to stardom -- From stardom to retirement -- Loving Sills -- Sills in the lives of her fans -- Experiencing magic -- Listening for after-vibrations -- Engaging with Sills's artistry.

Maria Callas, the singing actress, returned to the stage in 1971 to teach master classes at Julliard. Outspoken in her artistic beliefs, uncompromising in the musical understanding that she sought to communicate to 25 students, Callas worked through her arias from Mozart, Verdi, Rossini, Puccini and others.

Renée Fleming shares what she has learned from her experience as an inspiration for those contemplating a career in the arts. From struggling to get a career under way to dealing with her own personal doubts, Fleming is wonderfully candid and articulate about her art--especially the little discussed heart-throat-mind connection--and childhood influences, formal education, mentors, preparation, and mental and physical discipline. Here is a look at the real life of an artist today, a life confronted by the loneliness of touring, the need for resilience, the desire for creativity in the face of overwhelming commercial pressures, coping with business issues, and, most important, balancing personal and professional fulfillment.

A profoundly inspiring memoir of one of the most sought after and admired classical singers in the world--a man who has arrived at the summit of his artistry by overcoming extraordinarily daunting odds.

Roger Neill traces Marchesi's extraordinary five-decade career and introduces a remarkable cast of characters - Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Liszt and the pupils who crossed the globe to study with her, including Dame Nellie Melba. He reveals the phenomenally successful singing method that is her legacy, with Joan Sutherland, Kiri Te Kanawa and Meryl Streep all taught by pupils of Marchesi.

Sherrill Milnes, a great American baritone, shares his knowledge of singing in opera houses and music centers of the world encompassing all areas of vocal repertoires.

"Autumn journey is a filmed portrait of the life and work of German baritone, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau who prolific talks about his life, the remarkable influences which have guided his career, musical interpretation, his colleagues and his attitude towards Italian, Russian and French repertoire. Performance extracts include works by Schubert, Schumann, Strauss, Brahms, Mahler, Wolf, Bach, Verdi, Mozart, Wagner, Reimann, Berg, Henze and Britten.

Taped performances of two opera stars: soprano, Renata Tebaldi (telecast of Feb. 2, 1959); Erich Leinsdorf, conductor; and tenor, Franco Corelli (telecast of June 2, 1963) ; Wilfrid Pelletier, conductor (for Corelli).
Sung by Tebaldi: Madama Butterfly. Un bel dí vedremo -- Tosca. Vissi d'arte -- La bohème. Donde lieta uscí / Puccini. Sung by Corelli: Cavelleria rusticana. Brindisi ; Addio alla madre / Mascagni -- Ballet music from Jewels of the Madonna / Wolf-Ferrari -- I'Te vurria vasa / Russo-di Capua -- Turandot. Non piangere, Liú / Puccini -- O paese d' 'o sole / Bovio-D'Annibale.

presents the unique perspective of choral singing from a soloist's viewpoint, providing a clear outline of several issues facing the solo singer in the choral setting. She discusses concepts as diverse as body position in rehearsal and acoustic sound production, and she offers practical ideas for solving these challenges. Teaching examples and case studies help illustrate the problems and offer potential solutions for handling the challenges of the choral environment.