Contents
Berton Coffin, 1910-1987
Preface
Historical Background
1. Pier Francesco Tosi: Observations on the Florid Song
2. Giambattista Mancini: Practical Reflections on the Figurative Art of Singing
3. Manuel Garcia I: Exercises and Method for Singing
4. Manuel Garcia II: Memoire on the Human Voice
5. Manuel Garcia II: New Treatise on the Art of Singing
6. Matilde Marchesi: Theoretical and Practical Vocal Meethod and Ten Singing Lessons
7. Lulius Stockhausen: Method of Singing
8. Enrico Delle Seidie: Esthetics of the Art of Singing and of the Melodrama
9. Emma Seiler: The Voice in Singing
10. Francesco Lamperti: A Treatise on the Art of Singing
11. Giovanni Battista Lamperti: The Technics of Bel Canto
12. William Shakespeare: The Art of Singing (Part I)
13. William Shakespeare: The Art of Singing (Part II)
14. Herbert Witherspoon: Singing
15. William Earl Brown: Vocal Wisdom: Maxims of G.B. Lamperti
16. Margaret Chapman Byers: “Sbriglia’s Method of Singing”
17. William Johnstone-Douglas: “The Teaching of Jean de Reszke”
18. Lilli Lehmann: How to Sing
Appendix A: The Relationship of the Breath, Phonation, ands Resonance in Singing
Appendix B: A Recommendation for the Correction of Pich Involving Performances of Singers in Opera, Oratorio, and Choral Music of the Baroque-Classic Period, 1620-1820 (American Academy of Reachers of Singing)
Appendix C: The Tonal Art of Singing
Appendix D: The Instrumental Resonance of the Singing Voice
Appendix E: The Relationship of Phonation and Resonation
Appendix F: Articulation for Opera, Oratorio, and Recital
Appendix G: From the President
Appendix H: The Singer’s Diction
Appendix I: Remembering Berton Coffin (Jerome Pruett)
Appendix J: Biography of Berton Coffin (Mildred W. Coffin)
Appendix K: Delle Seidie’s Modifications of the French A in the Modulated Voice of Singing
Bibliography: Published Books and Articles by Berton Coffin