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Bel canto : a history of vocal pedagogy

"In this well documented and highly readable book, James Stark provides a history of vocal pedagogy from the beginning of the bel canto tradition of solo singing in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries to the present. Using a nineteenth-century treatise by Manuel Garcia as his point of reference, Stark analyses the many sources that discuss singing techninques and selects a number of primary vocal 'problems' for detailed investigation. He also presents data from a series of laboratory experiments carried out to demonstrate the techniques of bel canto."--BOOK JACKET
Print Book, English, 2003, ©1999
Reprinted in paperback 2003 View all formats and editions
University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2003, ©1999
History
xxv, 325 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780802086143, 0802086144
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The Coup de la glotte : a stroke of genius
Chiaroscuro : the tractable tract
Registers : some tough breaks
Appoggio : the breath be dammed
Vocal tremulousness : the pulse of singing
Idiom and expression : the soul of singing
Bel canto : context and controversy
Appendix : the Groningen protocols