NO, I remain a fool like BATTLEGODS, EPIC IDIOTS LOVERS OF MAIDEN, DECAYED FOREIGNERS AND PUBLIC CRITICS OF ITALIAN MUSIC, WHO LIVE AS A MERE DEPENDENT COLONY OF OTHER LANGUAGES... AND IN THEIR BARBARITY IN RETURN, I RETURN THEM TO THESE FEW LINES, WRITTEN NOT BY A METALHEAD FROM THE MAIDEN KENNEL, REMINDING YOU TO RETURN TO SING ADESTE FIDELES AT CHRISTMAS WITH YOUR APRON ON BECAUSE YOU NEED TO ATONE AND START FROM THERE BEFORE CRITICIZING MIELE AND OTHER MELODIC ITALIAN GEMS, NOT TO MENTION MAIDEN AND SINGERS WITH PIG’S TROTTERS: LET’S ALL READ TOGETHER NOW, YOU LOUDMOUTHS:
It is difficult to find a singer, Italian or foreign, who, to some extent or another, hasn’t studied the Practical Method of Italian Singing for Chamber in 15 Lessons by Nicola Vaccaj; explaining why this is the most widespread singing method in the world is equally challenging. Vaccaj published his Method in 1833 in London after arriving there the previous year following a three-year stay in Paris, and his novelty compared to other composer-teachers lies precisely in writing vocal exercises not in the form of solfeggi but as little arias, that is, true compositions even if simpler and more schematic than the aria with "da capo." In the brief preface to the work, he provides the formal explanation of his didactic choice.
Subject of the Practical Method
There is no doubt that Italian Singing, due to the great advantage it receives from the language itself, superior in music to any other, is what one must begin with if they wish to sing well, since once this is known, singing in all other languages becomes easy if they are spoken; which would not be so starting with others. However, from long experience, I have known that in Germany, France, England, and I would even say in Italy itself, many, if not all those, who learn it for their own pleasure do not care to engage with long solfeggi and exercises; claiming their sole aim is to sing in private; thus they pay no regard to any method. Therefore, I thought of one, and this is what I present, of a whole new kind, brief, delightful, and useful, with which one could equally, and more quickly reach the same goal.
