Bel canto and the sixth sense; a discursive and technical essay on the traditional Italian physical style of singing examined by means of the facilities of modern science. by Kay, Elster J.

Subjects: “…Bel canto.…”

Bel canto for the twentieth century. by Whitlock, Weldon

Subjects: “…Bel canto.…”

Bel canto : a novel / by Patchett, Ann

Bel canto; principles and practices. by Reid, Cornelius L.

Bel canto : the teaching of the classical Italian song-schools : its decline and restoration / by Manén, Lucie

Bel canto : vocalises for bass trombone (tuba) : progressive etudes for study and performance / by Raph, Alan

Coffin's overtones of bel canto : phonetic basis of artistic singing : with 100 chromatic vowel-chart exercises / by Coffin, Berton

“…Overtones of bel canto…”

Bel canto in its golden age : a study of its teaching concepts / by Duey, Philip A.

Giovanni Battista Rubini and the bel canto tenors : history and technique / by Marek, Dan

Table of Contents: “…Historical antecedents of the bel canto tenor -- Giovanni Battista Rubini -- Vocal technique of Rubini and the bel canto tenors.…”

Bel canto, a theoretical & practical vocal method / by Marchesi, Mathilde, 1821-1913

Italian belcanto opera libretti /

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Herman Klein and the gramophone : being a series of essays on the Bel canto (1923), the Gramophone and the Singer (1924-1934), and reviews of new classical vocal recordings (1925-1934), and other writings from the Gramophone / by Klein, Hermann, 1856-1934

The ultimate art : essays around and about opera / by Littlejohn, David, 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the difference is they sing -- Singing Greek tragedy -- When opera was still serious -- Ariosto and his children -- Don Giovanni : the impossible opera -- What Peter Sellars did to Mozart -- Norma : the case for bel canto -- Hugo sung and unsung : or why we put up with dumb opera plots -- Sex and religion in French opera -- Nuremberg used and abused -- Whatever became of the breastplates? …”

Wagner handbook /

Table of Contents: “…The musical works / Werner Breig -- The Bayreuth Festival and the Wagner family / Manfred Eger -- Performance history : a brief survey / Oswald Bauer -- Sprechgesang or bel canto : toward a history of singing Wagner / Jens Malte Fischer -- Wagner's musical influence / Carl Dahlhaus -- The prose writings / Jürgen Kühnel.…”

The tribe of Pyn : literary generations in the postmodern period / by Cowart, David, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Caliban -- Colonized Tongue, Colonized Pen: Heritage and Deracination in Alice Walker's "Everyday Use" -- Braid of Blood: Michael Dorris's A Yellow Raft in Blue Water -- Matriarchal Mythopoesis: Gloria Naylor's Mama Day -- The Jeffersonian Vision in Steve Erickson's Arc d'X -- Passionate Pathography: Narrative as Pharmakon in Richard Powers's Operation Wandering Soul -- Anger, Anguish, and Art: Chuck Palahniuk's Choke -- The Aim Was Song: Ann Patchett's Bel Canto -- The Sorrows of Young Icarus: Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves -- Thirteen Ways of Looking: Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad.…”

Experiencing Verdi : a listener's companion / by Sanders, Donald C., 1949-

Flavor and soul : Italian America at its African American edge / by Gennari, John

Singing in style : a guide to vocal performance practices / by Elliott, Martha

Table of Contents: “…The Classical era ; Scores and editions ; Classical instruments ; Articulation and legato ; Tempo and rhythm ; Voice types and ranges ; Mozart on singers ; Vibrato and portamento ; Recitative ; Ornamentation -- 4. Italian bel canto ; Scores and editions ; Articulation and phrasing ; Tempo, rhythmic flexibility, and rubato ; Voice types ; Technique ; Vibrato ; Portamento ; Ornamentation ; Cadenzas and improvised florid embellishment -- 5. …”

The glorious ones : classical music's legendary performers / by Schonberg, Harold C.

Table of Contents: “…The castrati : lungs of men, voices of women -- Angelica Catalani : pyrotechnics and greed -- A digression on travel, the industrial revolution, and related matters -- Giuditta Pasta, Maria Malibran, Henrietta Sontag, and Giulia Grisi : bel canto -- Giovanni-Battista Rubini, Mario, and Luigi Lablache : Bengal rockets, sweetness, and cannonades -- A digression on money -- Nicolò Paganini : spawn of the devil -- Franz Liszt : the eagle of the piano -- Jenny Lind : the moral lady -- Joseph Joachim : the incorruptable -- Anton Rubinstein : Russian elemental -- Adelina Patti : the queen of song -- Jean and Edouard de Reszke : the singing brothers -- Ignaz Paderewski : the aureoled Pole -- Pablo de Sarasate, Eugène Ysaÿe, Jan Kubelik, and Fritz Kreisler : a quartet of violinists -- Nellie Melba : the singing machine -- Enrico Caruso : the tenor of tenors -- Josef Hofmann : the Polish keyboard master -- Sergei Rachmaninoff : the Russian master -- John McCormack : Irish gold -- Feodor Chaliapin : bass from Mother Russia -- Arturo Toscanini : the maestro -- Jascha Heifetz : unruffled perfection -- Kirsten Flagstad and Lauritz Melchior : the two Wagnerians -- Arthur Rubinstein : joie de vivre -- Vladimir Horowitz : electrical energy -- Maria Callas : the will to succeed -- Leonard Bernstein, Herbert von Karajan, and Georg Solti : timebeaters three -- Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo : mano a mano.…”