Development & Origin of Oratorio
ORATORIO Defined: A large scale, dramatic, musical composition for orchestra, chorus, and soloists, with a text portraying a biblical or...
The pedagogy of vocal articulations
Just for the record: I did not draw that ^ ... but I do find it amusing, lol. DOWN TO BUSINESS: Sostenuto: Sustaining tones. It is...
American Art Song: Overview
American song is as eclectic as the cultures that make up the USA. Its song style defies description. Ned Rorem is considered to be the...
British Art Song : Overview
Carol Kimball states in her book Song: A guide to art song style and literature, "British song has a history of peaks and valleys. Music...
Italian Art Song : Overview
With the development of opera happening in the1600's, Song could hardly compete. Early Italian song is frequently used for beginning...
Mélodie - French Art Song: Overview
The history leading up to mélodie? Descending from the troubadour traditions, and the romance, Mélodie is said to begin with Berlioz and...
The Singer's Formant Cluster
The Singers Formant cluster is mostly regarded among men. It is the clustering of F3, F4, and F5. SFC occurs when: (1) there is firm...
Vibrato and its latest research.
Carl Emil Seashore (1866-1949) Using phono-photographic recordings of musical performances and speech and psychophysic measurements on...
10 Vocal Pedagogy Treatises before 1900
Observation of Florid Song - 1723 Italian, 1743 English PIER FRANCESCO TOSI - Most important treatise of the 18th Century because if was...
Brief History of Chiaroscuro
CHIAROSCURO: Bright and Dark. The result of laryngeal source and the resonating system interacting in such a way as to present a...
