Bel Canto: A History of Vocal Pedagogy

by James Stark

Book Overview

In this well documented and highly readable book, James Stark provides a history of vocal pedagogy from the beginning of the bel canto tradition of solo singing in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries to the present. Using a nineteenth-century treatise by Manuel Garcia as his point of reference, Stark analyses the many sources that discuss singing techniques and selects a number of primary vocal 'problems' for detailed investigation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802086144
• ISBN13: 9780802086143
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"