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Bel Canto: A Performer's Guide
Robert Toft
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| #598338 in Books | Oxford University Press, USA | 2013-01-14 | 2013-01-14 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.00 x1.00 x9.90l,1.05 | File type: PDF | 288 pages | ||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| An important text for the developing musical artist|By R. Chevalier|Robert Toft has given performers and teachers an invaluable tool for delving into performance practices of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He offers a great many direct quotations from artists and coaches from the period and includes numerous examples of analysis, often his own, to aid in understanding|||"This is a treasure of a book: Robert Toft, drawing on sixty years of sources, has captured vital elements of a Golden Age of song, between Handel and Rossini: the passionate declamation of texts, a wealth of ornamentation, four types of vibrato. Singers, it
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 turned into passionate declamation. In other words, vocalists saw their role more as one of re-creation than of simple interpre...
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