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The Great Singers: From the Dawn of Opera to Caruso, Callas and Pavarotti
Published in Paperback by Olympic Marketing Corporation (1985)
Author: Henry Pleasants
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THE History of singing
It is a travesty that this book is now out of print, as Pleasant's first great book, The Agony of Modern Music, has been for a long time. This book creates a window into the past, an idea of how the greatest singers before the advent of recording actually sounded. He brings them to life again, in short, vivid chapters. When you read this book, you get a clearer idea of how Bellini and Donizettis' operas sounded when Rubini and Grisi and Malibran were actually alive and singing them for the first time. Anyone who wants a better appreciation for opera should read this book. Any classical singer who doesn't is missing a critical part of their education. Pleasants covers performance practice from the Baroque through Strauss, from vocalism to ornamentation and the shifts in the balance of power between singer, composer, and conductor (and, now, director). It is an essential book.

Henry Pleasants died this month 1/5/2000. We have lost a great man. Maybe the publishers will notice this and reprint his books. Finally.


The great American popular singers
Published in Unknown Binding by Gollancz ()
Author: Henry Pleasants
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Great Singers
Published in Hardcover by Simon & Schuster (1974)
Author: Henry Pleasants
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The Great Tenor Tragedy: The Last Days of Adolphe Nourrit As Told (Mostly by Himself)
Published in Hardcover by Amadeus Pr (1995)
Authors: Adolphe Nourrit and Henry Pleasants
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Henry Porter Revisited
Published in Hardcover by International Scholars Publications (01 December, 1997)
Authors: Jacques Savarit and Henry Pleasant Historie of the Two Angrie Women of Abington Porter
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Opera in Crisis: Tradition, Present, Future
Published in Hardcover by Thames & Hudson (1989)
Author: Henry Pleasants
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Piano and Song/Didactic and Polemical: The Collected Writings of Clara Schumann's Father and Only Teacher (Monographs in Musicology, No 9)
Published in Hardcover by Pendragon Pr (1988)
Authors: Friedrich Wieck and Henry Pleasants
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Plain And Pleasant Talks About Fruits, Flowers And Farming (Notable American Authors Series - Part I)
Published in Library Binding by Reprint Services Corp (1859)
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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The Pleasant Comodie of Patient Grisill von Henry Chettle, Thomas Dekker and William Haughton. Nach dem Drucke von 1603 hrsg. Erlangen 1893. Reprint.
Published in Paperback by Rodopi Bv Editions (1970)
Author: Gottlieb Huebsch
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Plain & Pleasant Talks About Fruits, Flowers & Farming (The Works of Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887)
Published in Hardcover by Reprint Services Corp (1989)
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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