Introduction to the Art of Singing by Johann Friedrich Agricola
- Author: Agricola, J F
- Translator: Baird, Julianne C.
Julianne C. Baird has performed an important service in making available an edited translation of his principal publication —
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Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Agricola's treatise
- Introduction to the art of singing
- Translator's preface
- Foreword of the author
- Introduction of the author
- 1. Observations for the use of the singing teacher
- 2. Concerning appoggiaturas
- 3. Concerning trills
- 4. Concerning divisions
- 5. Concerning recitative
- 6. Remarks intended especially for the music student
- 7. Concerning arias
- 8. Concerning cadenzas
- 9. Remarks for the use of the professional singer
- 10. Concerning improvised variations of melodies
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.