In this first-ever book on the solfeggio tradition, one of the pillars of eighteenth-century music education, author Nicholas Baragwanath illuminates how perfor

How did castrati manage to amaze their eighteenth-century audiences by singing the same aria several times in completely different ways? And how could composers

How did castrati manage to amaze their eighteenth-century audiences by singing the same aria several times in completely different ways? And how could composers

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A new method of music theory education for undergraduate music students, Harmony, Counterpoint, Partimento is grounded in schema theory and partimento, and take