00 Prelims 1672 -- 01 Chapter 1672 -- 02 Chapter 1672 -- 03 Chapter 1672 -- 04 Chapter 1672 -- 05 Chapter 1672 -- 06 Chapter 1672 -- 07 Chapter 1672 -- 08 Chapt

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

Giovanni Battista Rubini (1794-1854) was a legendary tenor and the first 19th-century non-castrati male singer to become an international star of opera. The pre

Bel canto, or 'beautiful singing, ' remains one of the most elusive performance styles vocalists strive to master. During the eighteenth and early nineteenth ce