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Unit 3 · Italian

A slide on purpose

Slide between two notes only where the music asks, never dragging, then sing all of Vaccai's Semplicetta tortorella in Italian, every skip clean. Free.

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A slide on purpose

Classical singing has one slide, and only where the music asks: from one note to the next, on the first note's vowel.

Late in the first note. The slide starts near its end

Arrive on the beat. The new note lands on time; stop if anything tightens or hurts

What you sing

  1. Listen to both, then choose.
  2. One slide on purpose, up a fourth, and clean steps down.
  3. Two slides, each where it's asked for.
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Challenge: Semplicetta tortorella

All of Vaccai's tune of skips, with its words: a simple little dove flies into the hunter's arms.

Skips that land. Each one clean, the sound joined

Italian vowels. Each vowel filling its notes; stop if anything tightens or hurts

What you sing

  1. The whole song, with its words.

Singing safely

Your own voice at an easy medium volume, never pressed or put on: classical is how you join the notes, not a voice you make. Stop if anything tightens or hurts.

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