Treatise on vocal performance and ornamentation / by Johann Adam Hiller ; translated and edited by Suzanne J. Beicken.

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...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Hiller, Johann Adam, 1728-1804
Other Authors:	Beicken, Suzanne J.
Other title:	Anweisung zum musikalisch-zierlichen Gesange. English
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English German
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2001.
Series:	Cambridge musical texts and monographs.
Subjects:	Singing > Methods. Embellishment (Music) > Early works to 1800. Embellishment (Music) Singing Early works Methods (Music)