Vocal Mastery: Talks with Master Singers and Teachers
Researched Bibliographic Dossier
Verified edition data and a musicological research note prepared specifically for this work.
- Title
- Vocal Mastery: Talks with Master Singers and Teachers
- Author
- Harriette Brower
- Edition
- First book edition
- Publisher
- Frederick A. Stokes Company
- Place
- New York
- Year
- 1920
- Extent
- 20 portraits
- Language
- English
- Type
- Interviews / vocal pedagogy / singer testimony
SCOPE & CONTENT
Brower records conversations with Enrico Caruso, Geraldine Farrar, Victor Maurel, Lilli Lehmann, Amelita Galli-Curci, Giuseppe De Luca, Luisa Tetrazzini, Antonio Scotti and other major singers. Chapters address work habits, breath, diction, coloratura, opera training and artistic discipline.
RESEARCH VALUE
The collection is particularly important because it preserves first-person evidence from singers whose careers belong to the acoustic and early electrical recording eras. It should be used as testimony about historical practice, with modern scientific caution where physiological claims are involved.
CONTENTS AND DOCUMENTARY VALUE
Brower records conversations with Enrico Caruso, Geraldine Farrar, Victor Maurel, Lilli Lehmann, Amelita Galli-Curci, Giuseppe De Luca, Luisa Tetrazzini, Antonio Scotti and other major singers. Chapters address work habits, breath, diction, coloratura, opera training and artistic discipline.
HISTORIOGRAPHICAL USE
The collection is particularly important because it preserves first-person evidence from singers whose careers belong to the acoustic and early electrical recording eras. It should be used as testimony about historical practice, with modern scientific caution where physiological claims are involved.
- Catalogue completeness
- 7 / 10 core bibliographic fields