Music from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century is a central part of the singer's repertoire today, but until now no book has addressed the principles which governed song performance at the time this music was written. Robert Toft describes these principles in detail and places them in a broad cultural perspective. He shows that singing in the period was closely allied with speaking, drawing on many of the same performance techniques, including emphasis, accent, tone of voice, pauses, and gestures. He also shows how modern singers can use this historical background to move and delight modern audiences.
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"Accent and emphasis are clearly tied to natural text delivery and represent a facet only rarely indicated by editors." --The American Journal of Musicology Society.
"[R]obert Toft's volume has provided a great service....not only everyone involved in singing in any way, but also everyone involved in the art of music in any way, should peruse this volume and take its contents to heart....Toft's own meticulous study is more than welcome: it is essential."--Opera Quarterly
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Robert Toft is Professor and Chair in the Department of Music History at The University of Western Ontario
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