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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 September 2009
      12 April 2001
      ISBN:
      9780511481772
      9780521353540
      9780521358705
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511481772
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.54kg, 210 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (244 x 169 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.343kg, 212 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Medieval and Renaissance Music, Music, Music Performance
      Series:
      Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs
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    Subjects:
    Medieval and Renaissance Music, Music, Music Performance
    Series:
    Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs
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    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.

    Reviews

    ‘In Suzanne Beicken’s excellent translation Hiller comes across as eminently readable, with a dry sense of humour, and palpably eager to get his ideas across to a broad readership that includes not only the professional but also the keen amateur.’

    Source: The Singer

    ‘This is fascinating and useful reading.’

    Source: Early Music

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