Author | : Rodolfo Celletti |
File Size | : 46,8 Mb |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 06 May 1996 |
ISBN | : UOM:39015054354595 |
Pages | : 236 pages |
A History of Bel Canto by Rodolfo Celletti Book PDF Summary
This history of bel canto singing in Italian opera of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries includes a discussion of the style's links to the operatic ideals of the Baroque, the role of the singers in the style's development, the evolution of the style in various composers' works, a chapter on the Castrato, and a look at bel canto since Rossini.