First Edition, Signed by the Author on the Title-Page. Founder of the Laryngoscope
Ecole de Garcia. Trait? Complet de l'Art du Chant. Prix: 24 fr.
Paris: Chez l'Auteur, 1840.
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GARCIA, Manuel. Ecole de Garcia. Trait? Complet de l'Art du Chant. Prix: 24 fr. Paris: Chez l'Auteur, 1840.
First edition. Signed by the author on the title-page. Small folio (13 3/8 x 10 5/16 inches; 338 x 262 mm). xvi, 67, [1, blank] pp. With prospectus tipped in on rear free endpaper. With half-title. Contains both engraved and type printed pages. The engraved pages include many lines of music on staffs. We could find no copy other than this one on Rare Book Hub.
Full contemporary red morocco. Boards stamped in gilt. Front board with gilt initials "L.F." as central device. Spine lettered and ruled in gilt. Gilt dentelles. Board edges ruled in gilt. Watered silk endpapers. "L. F." apparently those of Luisa Fernanda de Bourbon-Orleans. Some light rubbing to spine and board edges. Evidence of a bookplate removed from front pastedown. A mild amount of toning and foxing. Overall a very good copy.
Manuel Patricio Rodr?guez Garc?a was a Spanish singer, music educator, and vocal pedagogue. He also invented the first laryngoscope.
"The son of world renowned singer and vocal teacher Manuel del P?pulo Vincente Garc?a (1775-1832), Garc?a (Jr.) studied music and was greatly influenced by the teachings and writings of his father. He performed until approximately 1827 (age 22), when it became apparent that he had little interest in performing, but had a great interest in teaching and research. In 1830, he became a military doctor and began following his curiosity about vocal anatomy. He began by experimenting with the larynges of animals and then invented the first laryngoscope, allowing him to be the first person to study human vocal folds in action. His laryngoscope used a dental mirror and reflected light from another mirror into the throat. One could say that Manuel Garc?a (Jr.) was the founding father of laryngology. He tirelessly sought to explain what occurred in the voice physiologically in order to produce the sounds singers and singing teachers described empirically. Until Garc?a?s research, some thought that ?chest? and ?falsetto-head? (as he called them) might be produced by two separate sets of vocal folds, or somewhere else in the throat entirely. In Garc?a?s M?moire sur la voix Humaine (Memoir on the Human Voice), he stated that those sounds were all made, in fact, by the same source. He also stated that pitch was different than timbre, which he clarified further in his later work, entitled "Ecole de Garc?a: trait? complet de l?art du chant par Manuel Garcia" (Treatise on the Art of Singing). His Memoir was accepted to the Acad?mie des Sciences de France in 1840. He edited it many times, continuing to adjust the manuscript as he discovered new information. Throughout his career, Garc?a taught at the Paris Conservatory (1830-1848) and at the Royal Academy of Music in London (1848-1895). He had many notable students, including mezzo-soprano and singing teacher Mathilde Marchesi, as well as famed Swedish soprano, Jenny Lind." (Vocal Pedagogy).
HBS 69196.
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Item #69196