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TOSI (PIERRE FRANCESCO): Observations on the Florid Song; Or, Sentiments on the Ancient and Modern Singers. Written in Italian By Pier. Francesco Tosi...Translated into English by Mr. [John Ernest] Galliard. Useful for all Performers, Instrumental as well as Vocal. To which ar
London: Printed for J. Wilcox..., 1743. 12mo, pp. xviii [xix contents, xx adverts], 184, 6 folding engraved plates of music before first page of text, 19th century marbled boards, recent calf spine, morocco label; short tear in fore-margin of title-page, but a good copy. Tosi (1653 - 1732) was one of the best castrati of his day and first sang in London in 1692. The above work was first published in 1723 as Opinioni de' Cantori Antichi e Moderni. As New Grove notes, the work remains "a valuable source of information about Baroque performing practice, particularly regarding the interpretation of appoggiaturas, trills and other vocal ornaments and the use of tempo rubato." John Ernest Galliard (c.1687 - 1749), a German composer who worked in London, had a reasonable success as a composer of operas and incidental music for the stage. His translation of the work by Tosi, whom he knew, adds a number of notes and observations to Tosi's original.
Offered for GBP 385.00 = appr. US$ 766.15 by: John Price Antiquarian Books - Book number: 4059
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