Venanzio Rauzzini and the Birth of a New Style in English Singing: Scandalous Lessons

Contents

• Prelude: "The First Master for Singing in the Universe"
• 1. Britain’s Music Education in Decline
• 2. Using and Creating Celebrity
• 3. Natural or Learned?
• 4. "The Father of a New Style in English Singing"?
• 5. A Master’s Treatise: A Legacy Product
• 6. Master or Servant: Vilifying the Female Amateur and the Italian Master
• 7. A Respectable Master or a Scandalous Lover? Postlude: The Eighteenth Century in the Twenty-First Century