Bel Canto : A Performer's Guide
ISBN: 9780199832323 | 0199832323
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 1/14/2013
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In Bel Canto, the 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.
Bel canto, or 'beautiful singing,' remains one of the most elusive performance styles vocalists strive to master. During the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, composers routinely left the final shaping of recitatives, arias, and songs to performers, and singers treated scores freely so that inexpressively notated music could be t... MORE
Bel canto, or 'beautiful singing,' remains one of the most elusive performance styles vocalists strive to master. During the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, composers routinely left the final shaping of recitatives, arias, and songs to performers, and singers treated scores freely so that inexpressively notated music could be t... MORE
Contents
Abbreviations
Part 1 The Principles of Bel canto
1. Introduction
2. Phrasing
3. Altering Rhythm and Tempo
4. Tonal Contrast, Register, Vibrato
5. Ornamentation
6. Dramatic Action
Part 2 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 farņ senza Euridice" (Orfeo ed Euridice, 1762)
Sarti, "Lun... MORE
Robert Toft has pursued a career as a vocal coach, performer, and researcher. He has published four books on the performance practices of singing between the 16th and 19th centuries and has given master classes, workshops, and lectures on historically-informed performance in Australia, Britain, Canada, Ireland, Switzerland, and USA. He is Professor of Music at Western University in London, Canada.
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