As the first full-length treatise ever to be published on singing, Tosi revealed to the world the secret method that accounted for the unworldly vocal abilities of the famous castrati. Living in a Europe alight with the virtuosic Baroque operas of Handel, Scarlatti and Porpora, Tosi revealed that it was extensive training in the "old Italian school" of singing that cultivated the beautiful tone and expression of their voices, as well as the infamous "mezza di voce," trills and runs. What's more, Tosi revealed that the method worked equally well for any voice type, male or female, provided...
As the first full-length treatise ever to be published on singing, Tosi revealed to the world the secret method that accounted for the unworldly vo...
The Opinions of the ancient Historians, on the Origin of Music, are various. Pliny believes that Amphion was the Inventor of it; the Grecians maintain, that it was Dionysius; Polybius ascribes it to the Arcadians; Suidas and Boetius give the Glory entirely to Pythagoras; asserting, that from the Sound of three Hammers of different Weights at a Smith's Forge, he found out the Diatonick; after which Timotheus, the Milesian, added the Chromatick, and Olympicus, or Olympus, the Enharmonick Scale.
The Opinions of the ancient Historians, on the Origin of Music, are various. Pliny believes that Amphion was the Inventor of it; the Grecians maintain...
