Bel canto : a performer's guide / by Toft, Robert

Table of Contents: “…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. …”
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The voice of the century : the culture of Italian bel canto in Luisa Tetrazzini's recorded interpretations / by Zicari, Massimo

Table of Contents: “…The voice of the century: Luisa Tetrazzini and her discographic legacy -- The Rossinian Repertoire -- Donizetti's operas -- Bellini and the new declamatory style -- Verdi's style: the end of bel canto…”
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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

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Music on stage /

Table of Contents: “…: New Perspectives on Training towards Integrated Bel Canto Performance /…”
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Literature and terrorism : comparative perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…NARRATING TERRORISM ON THE EVE OF 9/11: ANN PATCHETT'S BEL CANTO /…”
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Hits and misses : crafting top 40 singles, 1963-1971 / by Toft, Robert

Table of Contents: “…Telling a story -- Prosodic tunes -- Guitar-based modalities -- Bel canto : the unbroken tradition -- Invention and arrangement -- Transforming a demo -- Hit-and-miss affair.…”
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Not Russian Enough? : Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Nineteenth-Century Russian Opera / by Helmers, Rutger, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…A life for the Tsar and bel canto opera -- Subject matter, local color, and national style in Judith -- French theatricality and inadvertent Russianisms in the Maid of Orleans -- The Tsar's bride and the dilemma of history.…”
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Not Russian enough? : nationalism and cosmopolitanism in nineteenth-century Russian opera / by Helmers, Rutger, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…A life for the Tsar and bel canto opera -- Subject matter, local color, and national style in Judith -- French theatricality and inadvertent Russianisms in the Maid of Orléans -- The Tsar's bride and the dilemma of history.…”
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Not Russian enough? : nationalism and cosmopolitanism in nineteenth-century Russian opera / by Helmers, Rutger, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…A life for the Tsar and bel canto opera -- Subject matter, local color, and national style in Judith -- French theatricality and inadvertent Russianisms in the Maid of Orléans -- The Tsar's bride and the dilemma of history.…”
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La interpretación del violonchelo romántico : de Paganini a Casals. by Zurita, Trino

Table of Contents: “…Aspectos de la declamación que considerar desde la interpretación; 5. Final; Parte 2: Bel canto; 1. El bel canto como modelo en la práctica instrumental; 2. …”
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Romantic violin performing practices : a handbook / by Milsom, David, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Ideals. A violinistic bel canto? ; A violinistic declamatory ideal? -- Part III. …”
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The ultimate art : essays around and about opera / by Littlejohn, David, 1937-2015

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? …”
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Grand opera : the story of the Met / by Affron, Charles, Affron, Mirella Jona, 1937-

Table of Contents: “…A matter of boxes, 1883-1884 : bel canto -- Cultural capital, 1884-1903 : the German seasons and French opera -- Opera wars, 1903-1908 : Parsifal, Salome, and the Manhattan Opera Company -- Modernity, 1908-1929 : Puccini -- Hard times, 1929-1940 : Wagner -- Strains of war, 1940-1950 : the conductor's opera -- Stage business, 1950-1966 : Verdi -- In transit, 1966-1975 : American opera -- Maestro Assoluto, 1975-1990 : twentieth-century European opera and the Baroque -- Patronage and Perestroika, 1990-2006 : American opera (redux) and Slavic opera -- In the age of new media, 2006-2013.…”
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Conducting Opera Where Theater Meets Music / by Rescigno, Joseph

Table of Contents: “…Step into My Study -- Destinations -- The Flight Plan -- Charted and Uncharted Territory -- Mozart -- Le nozze di Figaro -- Don Giovanni -- Die Zauberflöte -- Bel Canto Opera Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia -- Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi and Norma -- Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor -- Verdi -- Rigoletto -- La traviata -- Aida -- Otello -- Falstaff -- Wagner -- Der fliegende Holländer -- Die Walküre -- Tristan und Isolde -- French Romantic Opera -- Gounod: Faust -- Bizet: Carmen -- Saint-Säens: Samson et Dalila -- Puccini -- La Boheme -- Tosca -- Madama Butterfly -- R. …”
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Marchesi and Music : Passages from the Life of a Famous Singing-Teacher / by Marchesi, Mathilde, 1821-1913

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Harm's way : poems / by Leigh, Eric, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Homesong; Skilled Trades; My Mother Reads Tobacco Road; Last of the Midnight Lullabies; Juleps; Bystander Effect; Life in the Rearview Mirror; On the Day the Last Drag Queen Leaves Town; The Controlled Burn of Carolina Dirt; Country Letter; On the Line; Oh, Loretta; The Last Remains of the Country Heart; Gun Country; The Dark-Light of Spring; Bel Canto for Beginners; Hymn; Catching a Stranger's Eye during the Changing of the Guard; Origami Heart; Loving the Haberdasher; Letter, January; At The Rhinestone Bullet; At This Late Hour; Understory; Earthquake Weather; Notes on Drowning; Assisted Living; For Those Who Cannot Make the Journey; Color Theory; Results; Harm's Way; Watching the Virus Attack a Cell; Sickness & Health.…”
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A history of opera : milestones and metamorphoses / by Fisher, Burton D.

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Cross-training in the voice studio : a balancing act / by Spivey, Norman, Saunders-Barton, Mary

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

Table of Contents: “…The Aim Was Song: Ann Patchett's Bel Canto; Chapter 9. The Sorrows of Young Icarus: Mark Z. …”
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The castrato : reflections on natures and kinds / by Feldman, Martha

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