Great Singers, Second Series
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Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Classical music lovers interested in opera and vocal history
- English-language readers curious about nineteenth-century singers' anecdotes
- Self-learners seeking free English e-books on music
- Students of music history or performance as supplementary material
Not a good fit for
- Readers seeking systematic vocal training methods
- Those with limited English reading ability who rely on Chinese translations
- Researchers expecting modern scholarly notes and references
Reading tips
- Start with the table of contents to pick chapters on singers of interest and read by figure.
- Listen to relevant opera excerpts while reading to enrich the experience.
- Cross-check the figures against a music-history timeline and take brief notes for review.
- Look up unfamiliar terms in a music dictionary first; there is no need to read every word closely.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
Contents
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About the author
George Titus Ferris (1840–), an American author whose date of death is unknown, is known for popular and lively biographies of classical musicians. His works include The Great German Composers, Great Italian and French Composers, Great Violinists and Pianists, and the two-volume Great Singers; six of his works are held in this collection. Written for general readers, these books present the lives and artistic achievements of composers, performers, and singers in an accessible narrative style, aiming to bring music history to a broad audience and helping to popularize knowledge of classical music.
