A Comparison of French and Italian Singing in the Seventeenth Century

A Comparison of French and Italian Singing in the Seventeenth Century

Sanford, Sally A.

Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1995)

Abstract

Although Italian and French solo vocal music in the seventeenth century may have shared a common aesthetic aim — to move the passions — French and Italian singers achieved that aim through quite different technical and stylistic means. This article examines some of the principal areas of vocal technique that help to define the differences between French and Italian singing in this period.

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