In this first-ever book on the solfeggio tradition, one of the pillars of eighteenth-century music education, author Nicholas Baragwanath illuminates how perfor

How did castrati manage to amaze their eighteenth-century audiences by singing the same aria several times in completely different ways? And how could composers

Music in the Galant Style is an authoritative and readily understandable study of the core compositional style of the eighteenth century. Gjerdingen adopts a un

At the height of the Enlightenment, four conservatories in Naples stood at the center of European composition. Maestros taught their students to compose with un

In seventeenth century Italy, overcrowding, violent political uprising, and plague led an astonishing number of abandoned and orphaned children to overwhelm the