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These two famous philosophers wrote on the importance of singing as part of a complete humanistic education.
Who are Plato and Aristotle?
The term for the specific brand of Italian opera that emerged in the 19th century in Italy, featuring florid style of singing and legato Italian melodies.
What is the Bel canto tradition?
I coined the term "contemporary commercial music".
The first organization for singing teachers in the United States founded in 1917.
What was NYSTA (New York Singing Teachers Association)? firmly grounded in Bel canto traditions...
Two books that heralded the dawn of the new "fact-based" era in voice pedagogy in 1967.
What are Appelman's The Science of Vocal Pedagogy: Theory and Application and Vennard's Singing: The Mechanism and the Technic
After the establishment of the early Roman Catholic Church, an official school of singing was founded by this Pope.
Who is Pope Sylvester (285-335)?
According to Stark (1999) these are some components that make up the Bel Canto method of singing.
What are chiaroscuro, appoggio, register equalization, malleability of pitch and intensity, and use of vibrato. (onset, legato, portamenti, messa di voice, trils, floridity).
An important Pedagogue who wrote "the Structure of Singing". Taught at Oberlin, and had a prescribed, formalic approach to technique that was not part of the bel canto masters...(hmmmm) Came up with the term "the International Italian School".
Who is Richard Miller?
The world's largest association of singing teachers.
NATS founded in 1944 (National Association of Teachers of Singing)
The pedagogue that published The Science of the Singing Voice - became the bible of acoustic theory...
Who is Johan Sundberg
In the Renaissance Pedagogic works began to appear. Günter (1997) proposed THIS was the first book on singing...
What is de modo cantandi chorale cantum (by Conrad von Zabern)?
Three composers well-known for the Bel canto tradition.
Who are Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini?
Italian Master most often considered the most influential upon 20th century American voice pedagogy.
Who is Lamperti?
This Journal is published fives times annually by NATS.
What is The Journal of Singing.
I am a singing teacher born in 1910 who was an early pioneer of the practical approach, writing two important books: The Sounds of Singing: Vocal Techniques with Vowel-Pitch Charts and Overtones of Bel Canto: Phonetic Basis of Artistic Singing with 100 Chromatic Vowel Chart Exercises.
Who is Coffin?
Who wrote the early treatise, Opinioni de' cantori antichi, e moderni (1723) on singing?
20 years after published in English as Observations on Florid Song.
Who is Pier Francesco Tosi (c. 1653-1732)?
Who was considered the most important singing teacher of the early 18th century according to Hoch?
Who is Nicola Porpora (1686-1756)
Famous for teaching Castrati- Caffarelli and Farinelli, and sopranos Regina Mignotti, and Catarina Gabrielli.
I invented the laryngoscope in 1854 to observe my own larynx, wrote the treatise "Hints on Singing (1854), and published my findings in the Observations of the Human Voice in 1855. Also the son of the great Rossini tenor...
Who is Manuel Garcia II?
Robert Thayer Sataloff, internationally renowned otolaryngologist has led this foundation since 1989.
What is the Voice Foundation?
I am the pedagogue that wrote "Your Voice: An Inside View".
Who is McCoy
An important early figure who wrote the song Amarilli mia bella.
Who were Manuel Garcia's two sisters?
Who are Malibran (1808-1836) and Pauline Viardot (1821-1910)?
We wrote Cross Training in the Voice Studio: A Balancing Act
Who are Spivey and Barton
What is PAVA (Pan-American Vocology Association)
I wrote two books Practical Vocal Acoustics and Kinesthetic Voice Pedagogy.
Who is Ken Bozeman?