About the book
Giuseppe Concone (1801–1861) was a Turin singing teacher and composer, and his books of lessons are among the plainest songs a singer is taught from. The 25 Lessons, Op. 10 (Twenty-five Lessons for the medium part of the voice) are a sequel to the Fifty Lessons: each is a short piece without words, for voice and piano, and each has one thing to teach — a sustained line, an even scale, a turn, a long breath.
The print. This is the Schirmer edition of 1892 (the alto volume), revised after Alberto Randegger’s by H. W. Nicholl. The tempo words and metronome marks are the print’s own, and the lessons are sung on the syllables of the solfège or on a vowel.
What is here. Lessons 1–25 of the twenty-five. Each lesson plays with its piano accompaniment, which is Concone’s own and is never drawn, only heard.
