L'Art du chant - Bérard, Jean-Antoine 1710-1772; Blanchet, Jean 1724-1778 (Paris Dessaint; Saillant; Prault; Lambert, 1755)
dedicated to Madame de Pompadour, the official chief mistress of King Louis XV from 1745 to 1751, who remained influential as court favourite until her death
includes an anatomical plate of the lungs
Authorship claimed by the Abbé Blanchet, who afterward published his "L'art, ou les principes philosophiques du chant" (Paris, 1756) as "2. édition, corrigée & augmentée." a designation that arises from the publication in 1755 of L’art du chant, dedié a Madame de Pompadour by Jean-Antoine Bérard, whom Blanchet accuses of incorporating his material. The two works certainly include many passages which are almost identical, notably the first and third chapters, ‘La voix considérée par rapport au chant’ and ‘La formation de la voix’. Blanchet in turn seems to have based much of his work upon the physician and anatomist Antoine Ferrein’s De la formation de la voix de l’homme (1741), although he refutes this imputation.Joseph Blanchet was not a musician but a priest and, in his own words, ‘homme de lettres amateur’.
concludes with a 34-page appendix containing vocal airs by Rameau, Campra and others.
Tartini's 'Traité des agrémens de la musique' (1775)
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