[et_pb_section admin_label=”Section” fullwidth=”on” specialty=”off”][et_pb_fullwidth_header admin_label=”Annotations” title=”Annotations” subhead=”What is hiding between the lines?” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”center” header_fullscreen=”off” header_scroll_down=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”off” content_orientation=”center” image_orientation=”center” custom_button_one=”off” button_one_letter_spacing=”0″ button_one_use_icon=”default” button_one_icon_placement=”right” button_one_on_hover=”on” button_one_letter_spacing_hover=”0″ custom_button_two=”off” button_two_letter_spacing=”0″ button_two_use_icon=”default” button_two_icon_placement=”right” button_two_on_hover=”on” button_two_letter_spacing_hover=”0″] [\/et_pb_fullwidth_header][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”2_3″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Intro” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”justified” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n
<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>W<\/span>hen I purchased the Paschke hard cover translation of Garcia in the nineteen eighties, I was ill prepared to assimilate the content. \u00a0I found that my ideas, ways of thinking and not a few bad attitudes needed adjustment. \u00a0When I understood the first bits of wisdom my little brain was capable of digesting, \u00a0I realized I was reading books that contained information roughly equivalent to the content of the Encyclopedia Britannica. \u00a0Where do the thousands of missing pages reside? Between the lines in Garcia’s text, and a large portion of that information stuffed between the lines could not actually be documented in Garcia’s day.<\/p>\n As time allows, I will be adding to this page my thoughts on A Complete Treatise on the Art of Singing: Part One<\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0 My intent is to lay out the things that I can explain which I have mined from between the lines. \u00a0I think Garcia intentionally\u00a0left\u00a0a lot of truth in there\u00a0for us to dig out for ourselves.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_button admin_label=”Store Page” button_url=”https:\/\/www.rockwellblake.com\/Garcia\/?page_id=177″ url_new_window=”on” button_text=”Get the Book” button_alignment=”center” background_layout=”light” custom_button=”off” button_letter_spacing=”0″ button_use_icon=”default” button_icon_placement=”right” button_on_hover=”on” button_letter_spacing_hover=”0″] [\/et_pb_button][et_pb_toggle admin_label=”xvii Intro Paragraph 1 and 2″ title=”Page xvii: Introduction To The First Edition – Paragraph 1 and 2″ open=”off” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n At the very beginning of his book, the Grand Master sets the tone and honors the great teachers of the past by declaring his desire to know more about them.\u00a0 It is no waste of time to delve into pedagogical history, so If you are seriously reading Garcia, I suggest you make an effort to read James Stark\u2019s book: Bel Canto: A History of Vocal Pedagogy<\/a>.\u00a0 He gives us a good and unconfused survey of the historical evidence Garcia mentions and documents the history of vocal pedagogy to the end of the 20th century.\u00a0 One may find reason to attack<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> Stark\u2019s vocal understanding, but his research seems solid.\u00a0 I am grateful to have his book as an historical reference, and wish I could find his CD<\/a> for sale.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle admin_label=”xvii Intro Paragraph 3, 4 and 5 to over page” title=”Page xvii: Introduction To The First Edition – Paragraph 3, 4, 5 and over page” open=”off” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n Garcia introduces himself and inserts his book into the fabric of history with confidence and humility.\u00a0 By crediting his father for the method he presents in Part One, he defines himself as an acolyte of his father\u2019s vocal brilliance and wisdom. When his book was first published, Garcia Sr. had been in his grave for only a decade. Every member of Garcia Jr.’s target audience knew who his father was, and many would have actually heard him sing. Today we need a little help to understand just how much justification Jr. was gathering to himself with his few words referencing his father. There is an excellent book which can help us understand how important his father was to the world of music of his day: <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Manuel Garc\u00eda (1775-1832) Chronicle of the Life of a bel canto Tenor at the Dawn of Romanticism<\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0Garcia Jr.’s stated goal would seem simply to consolidate his father\u2019s manner of instruction with supporting evidence gained through scientific inquiry and logical deduction, and, by so doing, present a comprehensive course of study in which all singers and teachers of singing could find answers to questions and remedies for difficulties.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_toggle][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_tabs admin_label=”Annotation Tabs” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n [et_pb_tab title=”xvii” tab_font_select=”default” tab_font=”||||” tab_line_height=”2em” tab_line_height_tablet=”2em” tab_line_height_phone=”2em” body_font_select=”default” body_font=”||||” body_line_height=”2em” body_line_height_tablet=”2em” body_line_height_phone=”2em”]People have been propagating the idea that<\/span> interpretation is not teachable<\/a> for as long as I can remember. \u00a0Garcia explains how wrong they are. \u00a0He dedicates his first volume to systematizing all the components necessary for interpretation in anticipation of his second volume.\u00a0 In that volume you will find the call to use everything a singer should have learned from volume one and how to use that education for interpretation.\u00a0 His books are effectively all about teaching interpretation from the beginning of Part One to the end of Part Two.\u00a0 There is no way to learn interpretation from a teacher who says it cannot be taught.\u00a0 Garcia says he teaches it, and I think anyone who calls him\/herself a voice teacher should do the same\u2026.\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Not say he\/she teaches interpretation.\u00a0 Actually teach interpretation.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=”xix Paragraph 3 and top of xx” tab_font_select=”default” tab_font=”||||” tab_line_height=”2em” tab_line_height_tablet=”2em” tab_line_height_phone=”2em” body_font_select=”default” body_font=”||||” body_line_height=”2em” body_line_height_tablet=”2em” body_line_height_phone=”2em”]The vocalise is a lovely item, just think of
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