Excerpt from The Tone Placed and Developed
Much has been said of the old Italian method of singing. The musical quality of the language and its adaptability for the ready expression of the vocalist is freely acknowledged. Still, the fundamental reason why the old Italians, preferably to the other nationalities, came to be called the maestros is to a great extent overlooked. The Italians, they say, possessed the natural way of singing, but just how their maestros could bring about this natural production of tone, I have nowhere in the limited literature of the vocal art found fully explained.
Mercadante was, perhaps, one of the most famous maestros of this old Italian school. The method which he followed in his teaching was imparted to his pupils in their lesson hours. No written formulas were put into their hands, and it depended entirely again on these to transmit his knowledge to the next generation. The most promising pupil of Mercadante, who possessed the greatest possibilities for teaching and handing down his ideas, was Vincenzio Cirillo.
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