Treatise on Vocal Performance and Ornamentation by Johann Adam Hiller

by Johann Adam Hiller

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521353548
• ISBN13: 9780521353540
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.7" x 9.6"