Hiller's Treatise on Vocal Performance and Ornamentation was
published in Germany in 1780 and is an important manual on vocal
technique and performance in the eighteenth century. Hiller was a
masterful educator and was active not only as a teacher but as a
critic, composer, conductor and music director. Thus, his
observations served not only to raise the standards of singing in
Germany, based on the Italian model, but to present complicated
material, particularly ornamentation, in a manner that his peers,
the middle class, could emulate. This present edition, translated
with an introduction and extensive commentary by musicologist
Suzanne J. Beicken, makes Hiller's treatise available for the first
time in English. With its emphasis on practical aspects of
ornamentation, declamation and style it will be valuable to
instrumentalists as well as singers and is a significant
contribution to the understanding of performance practice in the
eighteenth-century.
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