Bel canto : a performer's guide /

Toft, Robert.

Bel canto : a performer's guide / Robert Toft. - New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013. - 304 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 recitatives, arias, and songs to performers.

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