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Opera on the Move in the Nordic Countries during the Long 19th ...

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82 Marianne Tråvén<br />

Tra<strong>in</strong>i, Carlo 1954: Il Cigno di Romano, Giovan Battista Rub<strong>in</strong>i, Re dei Tenore.<br />

Bergamo.<br />

Vest, Jas<strong>on</strong> C 2009: Adolphe Bourrit, Gilbert-Louis Duprez, and Transformati<strong>on</strong>s<br />

of Tenor Technique <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> Early N<strong>in</strong>eteenth Century: Historical and<br />

Physiological C<strong>on</strong>siderati<strong>on</strong>s. Diss., University of Kentucky,.<br />

Vogler, Georg Joseph 1776: Stimmbildungskunst, Mannheim.<br />

Summary<br />

This article <strong>in</strong>vestigates <strong>the</strong> educati<strong>on</strong> of s<strong>in</strong>gers at <strong>the</strong> Royal Theatres <strong>in</strong><br />

Stockholm (primarily <strong>the</strong> opera) and <strong>the</strong> Royal Swedish Academy of Music<br />

between 1773 and 1850, c<strong>on</strong>nect<strong>in</strong>g this <strong>in</strong>structi<strong>on</strong> to <strong>in</strong>ternati<strong>on</strong>al educati<strong>on</strong>al<br />

methods. Resources for this study are divided <strong>in</strong>to two parts: didactic<br />

manuals and manuscript sources <strong>on</strong> vocal <strong>in</strong>structi<strong>on</strong> <strong>on</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>on</strong>e hand, and<br />

documentati<strong>on</strong> <strong>on</strong> <strong>the</strong> organisati<strong>on</strong> of vocal educati<strong>on</strong> <strong>on</strong> <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r, preserved<br />

<strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> archives of <strong>the</strong> Royal <str<strong>on</strong>g>Opera</str<strong>on</strong>g> and <strong>the</strong> Royal Academy of Music.<br />

The article gives an overview of <strong>the</strong> problems of vocal educati<strong>on</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> last<br />

decades of <strong>the</strong> eighteenth century and <strong>the</strong> first half of <strong>the</strong> n<strong>in</strong>eteenth century,<br />

when two traditi<strong>on</strong>s of vocal educati<strong>on</strong> were evident <strong>in</strong> Sweden. One<br />

was elementary, designed to form <strong>the</strong> vocal apparatus and give <strong>the</strong> student<br />

basic musical tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g. The o<strong>the</strong>r was orientated towards vocal dramatics<br />

and <strong>in</strong>terpretati<strong>on</strong>. Both were founded <strong>on</strong> late eighteenth-century aes<strong>the</strong>tic<br />

ideas.

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