引说在西洋声乐文献中,这是第一本对于人声声区问题进行广泛研究的著作。在这本书中,讨论到对于有才能的少年,在准备培养成为歌唱者时所涉及到的问题。曼齐尼对于阉人歌唱者的声音进行了探索,并谈论到把声音分为两个声区,即他所称的“胸声区”和“头声区”或“假声区”(falsetto)。书中很少谈到男声,因为当时歌唱教师都足阉人歌者,而这些歌唱技法对于各类歌唱者也是同样有用的。如今我们所说,把人声分为三个或更多的声区,这些东西乃是曼齐尼当时已经充分加了描述过的。所 Quoted in the Western vocal literature, this is the first book to study the issue of vocal area widely. In this book, I discuss the issues involved in preparing to become a singer for talented teenagers. Manzini explored the voice of the eunuch singer and talked about separating the sound into two voiced areas, what he called the “thoracic area” and the “head accent” or “falsetto.” Men rarely talk about male voices, because singing teachers were all eunuchs, and these singing techniques were equally useful to all kinds of singers. What we now call the division of the human voice into three or more areas of sound, which Manzini had adequately described at the time. The