Perfect Italian Diction for Singers is an authoritative guide for singing the most beautiful and expressive Italian. This book is the culmination of decades of experience and insights by two noted Italian and American pedagogues and vocal coaches as they systematically home in on essential features of the most beautiful Italian, the main issues and pitfalls of non-Italian singers, and steps and tools to overcome them. Timothy Cheek and Anna Toccafondi provide a step-by-step guide for singing flawlessly in this language, and, in addition to delving to the heart of Italian sounds and inflection, they present controversies, misconceptions, and various approaches-often conflicting-that have arisen throughout the last century for approaching Italian diction. Chapters also address: Italian style and legato Best use of supplemental resources and dictionaries Recitative with suggested, short Mozart excerpts Working with text Singing diphthongs, triphthongs, and hiatus Also included are a plethora of audio and video examples and exercises (over seventy QR codes), written exercises for group or self-study, and self-assessment summaries at the ends of chapters. Careful study of this book will help to lay a solid foundation for communicating in beautiful lyric Italian.

Perfect Italian Diction for Singers: An Authoritative Guide provides the steps and tools for singing beautifully and expressively in this language. Timothy Cheek and Anna Toccafondi systematically home in on the essential features of the most beautiful Italian, pitfalls of non-native singers, and how to overcome those issues. In addition to delving to the heart of Italian sounds and inflection, they present controversies, misconceptions, and various approaches--often conflicting--that have arisen throughout the last century. Chapters also address: -Italian style and legato -Best use of supplemental resources and dictionaries -Recitative with suggested, short Mozart excerpts -Working with text -Singing diphthongs, triphthongs, and hiatus Also included are a plethora of audio and video examples and exercises (over seventy QR codes), exercises for group or self-study, and self-assessment summaries. This book will help singers and students lay a solid foundation in beautiful, lyric Italian.

Published 50 years after the last major treatment of American art song, the first edition of the three-volume American Art Song and American Poetry was the first work to fully consider the musical settings of American poetry. Ruth Friedberg's monumental study was undertaken as a partial remedy to examine American song, from Edward Macdowell up through 1980. In the first edition, Friedberg focused on the interrelationship between the composer and the poet and the ways in which this influenced the completed song. Pieces selected for inclusion had the dual function of recognizing the importance of contributions to the performing literature as well as illuminating phases of America's cultural past. In this second edition, now published in a convenient, one-volume format, Ruth Friedberg and Robin Fisher have updated the entries on composers and poets from the first edition and added new individuals to both categories. New composers appearing in this volume include Florence Price, Lee Hoiby, Emma Lou Diemer, Helen Greenberg, Flicka Rahn, Libby Larsen, John Musto, Lori Laitman, Ricky Ian Gordon, and Jake Heggie. Poets now receiving their first treatment are Ezra Pound, Emma Lazarus, Dorothy Diemer Hendry, Dorothy Parker, Willa Cather, Louise Bogan, and William Carlos Williams. As before, musical examples are liberally employed to illustrate specific approaches to poetic text-setting and are much more visually accessible due to present-day digital technology. The new edition of American Art Song and American Poetry will be a valuable addition to the collections of scholars, performers, and libraries. It is an ideal reference work for students and faculty of voice in undergraduate and graduate courses in American music as well as literature scholars interested in the interdisciplinary approaches. Singers and teachers of singing will find in this new edition a vast array of carefully selected program material for the studio and the recital hall, along with carefully researched background material to enable effective performance. Users will find the volume's extensive bibliography and general index extremely helpful.

A collection of operas recorded live at the Vienna State Opera. Riccardo Muti is the conductor for a 1999 performance of Mozart's 'Don Giovanni', with a cast including Franz-Joseph Selig, Michael Schade, Adrianne Pieczonka, Carlos Álvarez, Angelika Kirchschlager, Anna Caterina Antonacci and Lorenzo Regazzo. Thomas Hampson, Christina Gallardo-Domas and Ferruccio Furlanetto head the cast of Verdi's opera 'Simon Boccanegra', recorded in 2002 with Daniele Gatti conducting. Finally, Philippe Jordan is the conductor for a 2005 performance of Massenet's opera 'Werther', featuring Marcelo Álvarez, Elina Garanca, Adrian Eröd and Ileana Tonca.

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Title: Horwich: its history, legends and church.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection provides histories and analyses of society, culture, education, crime, and family life. Providing a unique perspective of everyday life in the 18th and 19th centuries, readers of these works can study earlier developments that formed our modern society.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Hampson, Thomas; 1883. 256 p.; 8 . 10352.c.18.

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Antonio Pappano is the conductor for Richard Eyre's production of Verdi's opera staged at the Royal Opera House in 2009. American soprano Renee Fleming heads an all-star cast including Johan Botha, Joseph Calleja, Thomas Hampson and Eddie Wade.

Thomas Hampson, Christina Gallardo-Domas and Ferruccio Furlanetto head the cast in this live recording of Verdi's opera from the Vienna State Opera in 2002, with Daniele Gatti conducting the opera and chorus.

Christian Thielemann conducts the Staatskapelle Dresden and the Sächsischer Staatsopernchor Dresden in this production of Strauss's opera, recorded at the 2014 Salzburg Easter Festival. Renée Fleming stars as the titular character with the rest of the cast featuring Thomas Hampson, Gabriela Benacková and Daniel Behle.

Live production from the Zurich Opera House of Verdi's tour de force. Jürgen Flimm's staging stays close to Verdi's intention, concentrating on the central characters, showing their instability, emotions, despair, love, sacrifice and tragedy rather than focussing on the actions of the Parisian society.