The Ranums' Panat Times

 Marc-Antoine Charpentier
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Access the other declamation  teaching sheets

Coaching sheets used for singers at the Peabody Conservatory and Opera Lafayette

When I prepared these pages, I was writing my Harmonic Orator but had not yet put it to the test ― which would happen at the Academy of Ambronnay in 1998.

The 10 Commandments of French Baroque Declamation

Page 1 contains rules 1-4 and deals chiefly with speech rhythms.

Page 2 contains rules 5-10 and discusses melodies.

Note: although the scanned pages can be read online, they generally do not print on a single page. If you want to print a specific page, I suggest that you right-click on the illustration, chose the option "Save Picture As...", and save it to a file on your computer (for example, "My Pictures").