Reviews for Diction Coach: Coloratura Arias for Soprano [With 3 CDs]

The average rating for Diction Coach: Coloratura Arias for Soprano [With 3 CDs] based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-08-08 00:00:00 Robin Ayers A good number of these essays (all previously published) go deep into the weeds of musicology. Probably half of what I read sailed over my head. For the lay reader (by which I don't mean to suggest they are easy reading), the essays I would recommend are A Few Canonic Variations; Wagner: Thoughts in Season; perhaps Reading Don Giovanni; and Mozart's Piano Concertos and Their Audience. I would also recommend the four essays in the first section, titled Criticism, to get an idea of what Kerman means when he uses the terms musicology, analysis, musical canons, and repertory, even though it will only be 100% comprehensible to an expert. I knew How We Got Into Analysis, and How to Get Out felt familiar - I read it in On Criticizing Music: Five Philosophical Perspectives, where it was called "The State of Academic Music Criticism." Kerman discusses at length the critic-musicians Charles Rosen (and his famous book The Classical Style) and Donald Francis Tovey. The five essays in the second section are taken up by the Renaissance composers William Byrd, Tallis, and Alfonso Ferrabosco. The third section covers Beethoven. The last section's seven essays are on operas and concertos (six essays on opera, one essay on Mozart's piano concertos).

Review # 2 was written on 2018-01-20 00:00:00 David Vanderwoude This is a complicated book. Even essays on our Ed if music that I know well (as a music lover not as a professional or a professor) were hard to always follow. But I read it slowly, and learned much.