Bel canto : a performer's guide /

The art of bel canto, or 'beautiful singing, ' is perhaps the most referenced and yet the most enigmatic and elusive style in the repertoire of the classically trained singer. During the bel canto era of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, composers routinely left the final shaping of...

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Main Author: Toft, Robert
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
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505 0 |a Part one: the principles of Bel canto -- Introduction -- Phrasing -- Altering rhythm and tempo -- Tonal contrast, register, and vibrato -- Ornamentation -- Dramatic action -- Part two: Bel canto in practice -- Handel, "Armida dispietata/Lascia ch'io pianga" (Rinaldo, 1711/1731) -- Handel, "O worse than death indeed/angels ever bright and fair" (Theodora, 1750) -- Gluck, " Sposa Euridice/che faro senza Euridice" (Orfeo ed Euridice, 1762) -- Sarti, "Lungi dal caro bene" (Giulio Sabino, 1781) -- Mozart, "Voi che sapete" (le nozze di Figaro, 1786) -- Mozart (arr. Bishop), " Love! Ever leave me" (the marriage of Figaro, 1819). 
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