Edward Foreman (1937 – 2018) was an American operatic bass, scholar of singing technique, and teacher. He was founder and editor of the Pro Musica Press (
Minneapolis), which reprinted historical treatises in facsimile and transcription, and also translated them into English.[1]
According to Richard Wistreich, these translations offer a uniquely comprehensive and valuable collection of Bel Canto pedagogy in English. He argues that "a growing number of influential singing teachers […] agree [with Foreman]", that there should be a revival of those old, healthy, singing practices.[2]
Foreman’s book ‘The Art of bel canto in the Italian Baroque. A Study of the Original Sources’, which covers the period between 1562 and 1810, was recommended as an excellent and accurate resource that avoids dissecting the original sources to fit recent concepts of pedagogy. [3]
The
Porpora Tradition, (
Corri, The singer’s preceptor Vols 1&2, 1811 and
Isaac Nathan, Musurgia Vocalis 1816) ProMusica Press, 1968 OCLC 39944
Tosi, Pierfrancesco: Opinions of singers, Ancient and Modern, or Observations on Figured Singing, ProMusica Press, 1993,
ISBN9781887117012
Pellegrini, Anna Maria, Grammar, or, Rules for singing well, ProMusica Press, 2001,
ISBN1887117148
Late renaissance singing : Giovanni Camillo
Maffei, Discourse on the voice and the method of learning to sing ornamentation, without a teacher (1562) ; Lodovico Zacconi, the practice of music, book one, chapters LVIII-LXXX (1592) ; Giovanni Battista Bovicelli, Rules, passages of music (1594); Giovanni Luca
Conforto, Brief and easy method ... (1603?) with English translation ProMusica Press, 2001,
ISBN1887117156
Authentic Singing, Being The History and Practice Of the Art of Singing And Teaching in Two Volumes ProMusica Press, 2001,
ISBN1887117121
Giuseppe Aprile, The modern Italian method of singing : with a variety of progressive examples & thirty six solfeggi, ProMusica Press, 2001,
ISBN1887117164
The Art of bel canto in the Italian Baroque: A study of the original sources, ProMusica Press, 2006,
ISBN9781887117173
A bel canto Method or How to Sing Italian Baroque Music Correctly Based on the Primary Sources, ProMusica Press, 2006,
ISBN9781887117180
^Wistreich, Richard (2007).
"Lost Voices". Early Music. 35 (3): 456–58.
^Greschner, Debra, 'Edward V. Foreman, The Art of bel canto in the Italian Baroque. A Study of the Original Sources.' Journal of Singing, 2008, Mar 1, Retrieved Mar 26 2023