This thesis examines the historical significance of the vocal methods employed from the middle of the seventeenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth century in what became known as the bel canto era. It provides further exploration into the pedagogical procedures of the bel canto technique through a study of the premier instructors and singers from this period. The resurgence of interest in this tradition is addressed along with its impact on current vocal pedagogy. The vital role that vocal agility played as one of its most distinguishing traits is the primary factor under investigation. A discussion of the bel canto teaching styles in relation to their approach to agility is a major point of inquiry. By maintaining a link between present artists and pedagogues and the old Italian school, it helps the singer understand the historical implications of vocal agility as an integral part of healthy vocal development.

Bel canto dainavimo mokymo Lietuvoje tradicijos Garsiausia pasaulyje klasikinio dainavimo mokykla – tai bel canto dainavimo mokykla. Lietuvos vokalo mokykla remiasi pagrindinai bel canto mokymo metodika,profesionalų ruošimo sistema ir pagrindais. Kadangi ji gyvuoja ne taip seniai, lietuviškos bel canto mokyklos gyvavimo tyrinėjimas edukologiniu aspektu yra svarbi pedagoginė problema, kurios gvildenimas padėtų geriau suprasti šios mokyklos klestėjimo teorinius ir praktinius ypatumus. Šiame darbe apžvelgti bendri lietuvių ir italų dainavimo mokyklų pedagogikos principai, svarbiausi jų panagrinėti detaliau. pagrindiniaidarbo aspektai:  išnagrinėta bel canto dainavimo mokyklos istorija;  bel canto dainavimo koncepcija, principai ir metodai;  istoriškai apžvelgtos bel canto dainavimo pedagogikos mokyklos;  lietuvių dainavimo mokyklos pradžia, itališkos ištakos ir raida;  atskleistas tiesioginis lietuvių dainavimo mokyklos ryšys su bel canto mokykla;  atskleisti bel canto dainavimo mokymo Lietuvoje raidos ypatumai;  apžvelgti lietuvių dainavimo mokyklos vokalo mokymo metodai ir pedagoginiai principai. Apibendrinančios studijos apie bel canto dainavimą lietuvių kalba nėra. Todėl šiuo darbu siekiama užpildyti esamą spragą. Tai pirmasis darbas, apibendrinantis Lietuvos bel canto dainavimo mokyklos principus. Jis galėtų tapti vokalo pedagogikos priemone studentams bei dėstytojams. / Bel canto is the most world known school of classical singing. Lithuanian vocal school is mostly based on Bel canto professional system and teaching methodology. As this school has been existing not for a long time, the educological research of Lithuanian Bel canto school is an important pedagogical problem, the analysis of which would contribute to better understanding the practical and theoretical particularities of the spread of this school. This thesis analyses the general pedagogical principles of Lithuanian and Italian singing schools. The major analysis aspects are as follows: • History of the Bel canto singing school; • Bel canto singing conception, principles and methods; • History of the Bel canto singing pedagogical schools; • The origin and development of the Lithuanian singing school; • The relation of the Lithuanian singing school to Bel canto school; • The particularities of Bel canto school development in Lithuania; • The pedagogical principles and vocal teaching methods in the Lithuanian singing school. There is no precise analysis in Lithuanian about Bel canto singing. Thus, this study is expected to fulfill the gap. It is the first work which summarizes the principles of the Bel canto singing school. It could serve as the vocal pedagogical-methodological means to both students and teachers.

Thesis (D. Mus. Arts)--University of Washington, 2002. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 107-115).

Thesis (D. Mus. Arts)--University of Washington, 1997. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [117]-120).

Orientador: Maria Betania Amoroso / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade EStadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-13T14:46:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Aguedo-Silva_JoseLuis_M.pdf: 911871 bytes, checksum: 44097ad9cd9946bce1fdcec2925e4b07 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: A ópera sempre teve, desde seus primórdios, uma grande importância para a sociedade, tanto como fonte de lazer como transmissora do pensamento de uma época. E era esta característica que Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872), o maior teórico do Risorgimento, considerava primordial: a ópera repassaria a seus ouvintes os ideais risorgimentali. Para isso, era necessário que sobretudo libretistas e compositores estivessem engajados nessa causa. Era o caso de um dos mais representativos libretistas do século XIX, Salvatore Cammarano (1801-1852), prolífico autor, que escreveu libretos para diversos compositores em quase vinte anos de carreira. Dada a sua importância para a História da ópera, enquanto um de seus criadores mais ativos, ele foi escolhido como o objeto principal de nossa pesquisa. Tomamos como objeto de estudo, entre os mais de trinta libretos que Cammarano escreveu, a obra que consideramos a síntese do período: Il Trovatore (1853), ópera em quatro partes com música de Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901). Il Trovatore nos parece essencial para ir mais a fundo nas pesquisas sobre o Romantismo na Itália. Numa época em que o romance tentava se fixar, a ópera teve uma participação fundamental na divulgação não só dos ideais do Risorgimento, como já citado, mas também na propagação de elementos do movimento romântico, então em voga. Na ópera, o período que coincide com o Romantismo europeu costuma ser chamado Bel Canto tardio, e são consideradas suas datas limite os anos de 1823 (quando da première da Semiramide, de Gioacchino Rossini e Gaetano Rossi) e 1853 (justamente com a Il Trovatore - sendo este mais um motivo para a escolha dessa obra). Dentre os objetivos de nossa pesquisa está o de proporcionar um estudo em português sobre o libreto, uma vez que a literatura relacionada ao assunto é escassa em nossa língua. Além disso, quisemos fazer um panorama da evolução do texto operístico com o passar do tempo, mostrando diferenças e pontos de vista, culminando na última obra de Cammarano, analisada mais profundamente / Abstract: Opera has always had, since its first years, a great importance to society, as a source of leisure and as a transmitter of the thoughts of a time. And the last characteristic is the one which Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872), the most important theorist of Risorgimento, considered essential: opera would be able to pass to its listeners the risorgimentali ideals. In order to do that, it was necessary that librettists and composers were engaged in this cause. That was the case of one the most representatives librettists of the 19th century, Salvatore Cammarano (1801-1852), prolific author, who wrote librettos for several composers in almost twenty years of a career. Given his importance to opera history, as one of its most active creators, he was chosen as the main object of our research. We chose to study, among more than thirty librettos written by Cammarano, the work that we consider the synthesis of the period: Il Trovatore (1853), opera in four parts set to music by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901). Il Trovatore seems essential to us in order to go further in our understanding of Italian Romanticism. In a time when the novel tried to fix itself, opera had a fundamental participation in spreading not only the risorgimentali ideals, as already said, but also the Romantic elements present in the age. In opera, the period which coincides with the European Romanticism is usually called late Bel Canto, and its limit dates are 1823 (when Semiramide, by Gioacchino Rossini and Gaetano Rossi was premièred ) and 1853 (with Il Trovatore). Among the objectives of our research is to provide a study in Portuguese about libretto, since the literature related to this subject is scarce in our language. Besides, we wanted to make an overview of the evolution of operatic text over time, showing differences and points of view, culminating in the last work of Cammarano, which we analyzed more profoundly / Mestrado / Literatura e Outras Produções Culturais / Mestre em Teoria e História Literária

Master of Music / Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance / Reginald L. Pittman / The songs presented in this report are works I performed in my Master’s Recital on March 30, 2014. This report will take an in-depth analysis at the selected composers’ life and styles of writing and the works they created. The scores studied in this report include: “Thus saith the Lord: But who may abide” from George Frideric Handel’s Messiah, “Soave sia il vento” from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Cosí fan Tutte, “Liebesbotschaft,” “Ihr Bild,” and “Das Fischermädchen” from Franz Schubert’s Schwanengesang, Vincenzo Bellini’s “Vaga luna che inargenti,” Giuseppe Verdi’s “Il Poveretto,” Gaetano Donizetti’s “Che vuoi di più,” Reynaldo Hahn’s “Á Chloris,” “Si mes vers avaient des ailes,” and “L’Heure Exquise” from Chanson grises, and “Ships of Arcady,” “Beloved,” “A Blackbird Singing,” and “Nocturne” from Michael Head’s Over the Rim of the Moon.

Följande arbete är en studie av den tid och samhälle som Rossinis opera L’italiana in Algeri skapades i och syftar till att ligga till grund för en rollgestaltning av operans huvudroll, Isabella, som är både musikaliskt och historiskt tidstrogen. Studiens huvudfrågeställning är ”Vem är Isabella?”. För att svara på frågeställningen har jag genomfört litteraturstudier som behandlat Rossini, librettisten Angelo Anelli, Italiens historia, operans roll i samhället, kvinnornas ställning i samhället, sångtekniken bel canto, teatertekniken commedia dell’arte och om att tolka Rossinis notskrift korrekt. I min analys har jag också använt mig av personliga erfarenheter från mina studier på Conservatorio di musica ”Giuseppe Verdi” i Milano, Italien. Resultatet av studien visar att rollen Isabella kommer från en lång tradition av komedi, både inom teater och opera, men att hon också kan ses som en politisk symbol. Detta är grunden för gestaltningen, men utöver detta har jag också funnit att det finns plats att öka rollens komplexitet genom att, där det finns utrymme, visa Isabellas mer sårbara sida i kontrast till hennes hjältinnekaraktär. Resultatet visar också att bilden av den italienska kvinnan är komplex och problematisk, där en kvinnlig självständighet efterfrågas, men bara om den sker på mäns villkor. Arbetet har lett till en grundkunskap som är till stor hjälp i min gestaltning av Isabella, men som även kommer att följa med mig i framtiden och ligga till grund för en bättre förståelse för den italienska operavärlden och dess verk. / <p>Presentationen skedde i form av en kortversion av operan L'italiana in Algeri. I rollerna: Isabella - Lovisa Huledal, Taddeo - Oscar Quiding, Mustafà - Mårten Wåhlström, Lindoro - Jakob WallAckompanjeras av: Piano - Oskar Tjäder, Violin - Michelle Barth-Croon, Viola - Joel Andersson, Cello - Emil Wegberg</p>

Horn players can improve their abilities to play artistically in a lyrical legato style, with a light mechanism, and employ a beautiful sound throughout the range of the horn through the study of bel canto vocal technique. No better singing model exists for horn players than that of the great bel canto singers of the early nineteenth century who were known for their refined technique, perfect legato, even tone, sparkling agility, and beautiful musical expression. Mastery of the expressive bel canto melodic style is a means for horn players to achieve artistry in performance. Pedagogical principles of nineteenth- and twentieth-century bel canto teachers, vocal exercises related to development of bel canto technique, and recorded performances of singers who have specialized in bel canto repertoire are examined. This study culminates in performer's guides to repertoire chosen from the few existing early nineteenth-century solo horn with piano pieces (by Balfe, Mercadante, and Rossini), with bel canto-informed horn technique explained.

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One of the styles that has influenced opera the most through history has been Bel canto. This work is a recompilation of personal research about its history, characteristics and one of its major exponents, G. Rossini. At the same time, it includes a personal approach on the topic of how to create and perform a character and some exercises aimed to improve the singing in the mentioned style.