Description

Rodolfo Celletti devoted his career to studying the voice from every historical, technical, and musical aspect. In this fascinating book he offers a history of bel canto singing and the voice in operatic literature. He explores the links between bel canto and the operatic ideals of the baroque, discusses Castrati and the art of singing in their day, and charts the style's death and resurrection since Rossini.

Reviews

"[An] elegant and lucid translation. This is an imaginative and valuable book, the fruit of profound study, and can be strongly recommended, as much to singers as to all others concerned with the period."--Music & Letters .

Product Details

224 pages; 86 music examples; ISBN13: 978-0-19-816641-2ISBN10: 0-19-816641-9