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Authentic Vocal Style Late Baroque
Authentic Vocal Style Late Baroque
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Early Music
been made by singers of the ideas of by uniting chest voice and head voice
unstressed ones not receiving inappro-
priate ornamentation for example.the
performing style which players of early If ability of the well-trained singer to
instruments now regard as more or lessthe words of any music, baroque or move from one end of his or her range
normal practice. to the other with consistency of timbre,
other, are to move their audience, they
To discuss the second matter first: which can only be achieved, even if what
must clearly be sung with due attention
to their stress and to their mood and
whilst it is clear that, in the early 17th we now call chest voice in women
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