HULLAH (John):

Wilhem's Method of Teaching Singing, Adapted to English Use, under the superintendence of the Committee of Council on Education. Revised and Reconstructed in 1829. Part The First.

London: John W. Park and Son..., 1852. Tall 8vo, pp. vi [vii - viii Contents], 154, 10 pp. adverts, music illustrations in text, original cloth; ex-library

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Book number: 5346

Catalogue: Singing

Keywords: singing music prose

SINGING.

The London Minstrel a selection of favorite Songs, Duetts, Glees &c. Set to Music for the Voice, Violin & Flute with an Introduction to Singing.

London Printed for Dean & Munday..., 1821. 12mo (in 6s), pp. [iii] - xxiv, [13] - 186, engraved frontispiece and engraved title-page (no letter-press title-page), original printed boards, neatly restored, uncut; covers a bit soiled. The London Minstrel opens with, curiously, "Scots wha ha'e wi' Wallace bled." The songs are printed with both words and music. The front printed cover attributes the work to "A Professional Gentleman."

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Book number: 7935

Catalogue: Singing

Keywords: singing music literature

TOSI (Pierre Francesco):

Observations on the Florid Song; Or, Sentiments on the Ancient and Modern Singers. Written in Italian By Pier. Francesco Tosi...Translated into English by Mr. [John Ernest] Galliard. Useful for all Performers, Instrumental as well as Vocal. To which are added, Explanatory Annotations, and Examples in Music. The Second Edition.

London: Printed for J. Wilcox..., 1743. 12mo, 156 x 88 mms., pp. xviii [xix contents, xx adverts], 184, 6 folding engraved plates of music, blue silk end-papers, 19th century hard grain red morocco. with gilt cypher initials holding within a gilt coronet on each cover, spine blocked in gilt, all edges gilt. A very good copy, with the Ex Libris of Peter Stewart Young Tillingham on the front paste-down end-paper. Tosi (1653 - 1732) was one of the best castrati of his day and first sang in London in 1692. The above work was first published in 1723 as Opinioni de' Cantori Antichi e Moderni. As New Grove notes, the work remains "a valuable source of information about Baroque performing practice, particularly regarding the interpretation of appoggiaturas, trills and other vocal ornaments and the use of tempo rubato." John Ernest Galliard (c.1687 - 1749), a German composer who worked in London, had a reasonable success as a composer of operas and incidental music for the stage. His translation of the work by Tosi, whom he knew, adds a number of notes and observations to Tosi's original.

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Book number: 9789

Catalogue: Singing

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