The Technics of Bel Canto
Researched Bibliographic Dossier
Verified edition data and a musicological research note prepared specifically for this work.
- Title
- The Technics of Bel Canto
- Author
- Giovanni Battista Lamperti
- Edition
- English edition
- Publisher
- G. Schirmer
- Place
- New York
- Year
- 1905
- Extent
- 36 pages
- Language
- English
- Type
- Vocal pedagogy / bel canto treatise
SCOPE & CONTENT
Lamperti’s compact treatise addresses breathing, tone support, registers, resonance, messa di voce, portamento, legato, agility and the classification of voices. The English version is associated with Theodore Baker and translates the author’s 1905 German text.
RESEARCH VALUE
The treatise is a concise document of the late Italian bel-canto teaching tradition. Its vocabulary should not be mapped uncritically onto modern voice science, but it remains important for understanding concepts such as appoggio, register transition and sustained legato as taught around 1900.
CONTENTS AND DOCUMENTARY VALUE
Lamperti’s compact treatise addresses breathing, tone support, registers, resonance, messa di voce, portamento, legato, agility and the classification of voices. The English version is associated with Theodore Baker and translates the author’s 1905 German text.
HISTORIOGRAPHICAL USE
The treatise is a concise document of the late Italian bel-canto teaching tradition. Its vocabulary should not be mapped uncritically onto modern voice science, but it remains important for understanding concepts such as appoggio, register transition and sustained legato as taught around 1900.
- Catalogue completeness
- 7 / 10 core bibliographic fields