How did castrati manage to amaze their eighteenth-century audiences
by singing the same aria several times in completely different
ways? And how could composers of the time write operas in a matter
of days? The secret lies in the solfeggio tradition, a music
education method that was fundamental to the training of European
musicians between 1680 and 1830 - a time during which professional
musicians belonged to the working class. As disadvantaged children
in orphanages learned the musical craft through solfeggio lessons,
many were lifted from poverty, and the most successful were
propelled to extraordinary heights of fame and fortune. In this
first book on the solfeggio tradition, author Nicholas Baragwanath
draws on over a thousand manuscript sources to reconstruct how
professionals became skilled performers and composers who could
invent and modify melodies at will. By introducing some of the
simplest exercises in scales, leaps, and cadences that apprentices
would have encountered, this book allows readers to retrace the
steps of solfeggio training and learn to generate melody by
'speaking' it like an eighteenth-century musician. As it takes
readers on a fascinating journey through the fundamentals of music
education in the eighteenth century, this book uncovers a forgotten
art of melody that revolutionizes our understanding of the history
of music pedagogy.
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