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Lanza, Gesualdo (1779-1859)

Lanza's Abridgement of his Work on the Art of Singing…from the larger Work, entitled The Elements of Singing.

G. E. Blake: Philadelphia, c 1825. Engraved. Quarto. 42 pp. Full-page portrait of an unidentified female singer after title page (see images). Disbound. A good copy. Some foxing, mostly confined to margins. Front page detaching with two penciled signatures of former owners at top.
An abridged version of Lanza's well-regarded Elements of Singing, which had been first published in London in 1817. This shortened copy includes a mix of instructions (on breathing, solfege, trilling, grace notes, scales, etc.) and exercises for one and two voices.
Gesualdo Lanza was an Italian pedagogue and composer who spent much of his career in England. He kept a teaching studio on Newman Street and counted Covent Garden favorites Catherine Stephens and Anna Maria Tree among his pupils. The Elements of Singing was the most successful of his four treatises.
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