 The original collection comprises three volumes of songs or arias published as a primer to study classical singing, but the three volumes have since been reduced to single-volumed extracts known as the "24 Italian Songs and Arias".The original Arie Antiche are still available through Ricordi, Schirmer, and Kalmus.Parisotti collected these antique arias ("arie antiche" is the Italian) in what was the 19th century vogue for discovering forgotten old or antique music from the classical and baroque eras.