Classical Italian Style Of The Song Features The Vocal Teaching Value

The traditional Italian songs in the 17th and 18th centuries is an exotic flower among the world vocal literature. With beautiful melody, refinement and a touch on various subjects, these songs reflect the features of the typical music. The classical Italian songs are in the form of recitative, aria, oratorio, pastoral songs, and cantata. A research and analysis of these songs show that lyrics are perfectly integrated into the music, and that the lyrics reflect the humanism since the Renaissance in Italy. These songs are worldly, classical, beautiful, fluent and humorous, and in other hand, implicative, solemn, and grand, expressing the feelings of people after the liberation from asceticism.From the vocal aspect, these songs are brisk in singing, which is in the mediant of human voice. Generally, they have a narrow diapason, with no strong pitch and strong bass, so they are suitable for singers of all voice part to develop his mediant part. At the same time, these songs have a pure style, and just need moderate expression, and they always have long coherent sentences, obvious in strength and clear tones. Such features are good to help the learners perform the actual sound. In order to break up with the traditional demerit of endless vocal practices, we can not turn vocal lessons into a "vocal gymnastics". We can adopt these songs with a critical attitude, select the best of these Italian songs as the training materials for the students major in vocal. The author hold that it is a good way to the vocal teaching.