Bel canto: a theoretical & practical vocal method
(2014)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Dover Publications : Made available through hoopla, 2014
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9780486172866 (electronic bk.) MWT11606716, 0486172864 (electronic bk.) 11606716
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
A student of Manuel Garcia the Second, Mathilde Marchesi linked the traditional bel canto teaching methods to the early 20th century. Marchesi presents the "vocal alphabet," or basic instructions and exercises that formed the voices of her own students, who included Melba and Calv̌. Her guide discusses breathing, attack, registers, voice management, and projection
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