TY - BOOK ID - 73079235 TI - Treatise on vocal performance and ornamentation AU - Hiller, Johann Adam AU - Beicken, Suzanne J. PY - 2001 SN - 0521353548 0521358701 0511097417 1107111528 0511174209 0511020813 0511153880 0511328125 0511481772 128041653X 0511052405 9780511481772 9780511020810 9780511052408 9780511153884 9786610416530 6610416532 9780521353540 9780521358705 9780511097416 9781107111523 9781280416538 9780511174209 9780511328121 PB - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Singing KW - Methods KW - Embellishment (Music) KW - Early works to 1800 KW - 78.41.1 KW - Diminution (Music) KW - Ornamentation (Music) KW - Ornaments (Music) KW - Music KW - Performance practice (Music) KW - Vocal methods KW - Voice methods KW - Performance KW - Zangpedagogie KW - 18e eeuw UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:73079235 AB - 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 director. Thus, his observations served not only to raise the standards of singing in Germany, based on the Italian model, but to present complicated material, particularly ornamentation, in a manner that his peers, the middle class, could emulate. This present edition, translated with an introduction and extensive commentary by musicologist Suzanne J. Beicken, makes Hiller's treatise available for the first time in English. With its emphasis on practical aspects of ornamentation, declamation and style it will be valuable to instrumentalists as well as singers and is a significant contribution to the understanding of performance practice in the eighteenth-century. ER -