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Bel Canto - A Performer's Guide (Paperback)
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Bel Canto - A Performer's Guide (Paperback)
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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 eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries,
composers routinely left the final shaping of recitatives, arias,
and songs to performers. Vocalists in turn treated scores as a
starting point for interpretation and personalized the music as
their own, rather than merely giving voice to the score as written,
transforming otherwise inexpressively notated music into passionate
declamation. In other words, singers saw their role more as one of
re-creation than of simple interpretation. Familiarity with the
range of strategies prominent vocalists of the past employed to
unlock the eloquent expression hidden in scores enables modern
singers to take a similar re-creative approach to enhancing the
texts before them. In this first ever guide to the bel canto style,
author Robert Toft provides singers with the tools they need to
bring scores to life in an historically informed manner. Replete
with illustrations based on excerpts from Italianate recitatives
and arias by composers ranging from Handel to Mozart, each chapter
offers a theoretical discussion of one fundamental aspect of bel
canto, followed by a practical application of the principals
involved. Drawing on a wealth of documents surviving the era,
including treatises, scores, newspaper reviews, and letters, this
book reflects the breadth of practices utilized by singers of the
bel canto era, affording modern day vocalists the opportunity to
not only how singers altered and embellished the texts before them,
but also to develop their own personal style of doing so. Complete
with six complete aria scores for performers to personalize through
bel canto techniques, and a companion website offering
demonstrations of the principles explained, Bel Canto is an
essential resource to any singer or vocal instructor looking to
explore and master this repertoire.
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