Singing in Style: A Guide to Vocal Performance Practices

The first historical overview of vocal performance practice and style ever published, Singing In Style provides an introduction to how such issues as ornamentation, vibrato, rubato, portamento, articulation, tempo, language, and accompaniment with period instruments have been handled since the seventeenth century. Each chapter presents a historical period and gives background information on the singers and composers, the vocal repertoire, and the stylistic conventions of that time. Specific repertoire examples are discussed as well, to show how to use the music itself as a context for making stylistic choices. Each chapter also has an extensive reference list arranged by topic, so the interested reader can pursue a particular subject in more depth.

Covering the Baroque period to the present, Elliott casts a wide net, bringing together information from historical treatises, personal accounts from composers, performers, historians, critics, and current scholarly commentary into one convenient handbook for the student and the amateur and professional performer who want to learn more about how vocal works were sung in their day.

• Song: A Guide to Art Song Style and Literature
• The Fischer-Dieskau Book of Lieder: The Original Texts of Over Seven Hundred and Fifty Songs (Limelight)
• Baroque Music: Style and Performance: A Handbook
• The Naked Voice: A Wholistic Approach to Singing
• Art Song: Linking Poetry and Music
• The Lieder Anthology High Voce Ed. V Saya and R. Walters, The Vocal Library
• Webster's New World Italian Dictionary: Italian/English, English/Italian
• Arias for Soprano: G. Schirmer Opera Anthology (G. SCHRIMER OPERA ANTHOLOGY)
• The Interpretation of French Song (Norton Library (Paperback))
• Messiah