Bel Canto: The Teaching of the Classical Italian Song-Schools

Its Decline and Restoration

By: Lucie Manén

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Paperback | 5 November 1987

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Lucie Manén presents the findings of her extensive investigation into the original Italian art of Bel Canto singing. After summarizing the history of Bel Canto and some mistaken teaching methods, she describes in detail her own research into the physiological aspects of Bel Canto - from posture and breathing to details of messa di voce and coloratura.This is a completely revised and expanded version of Lucie Manén's The Art of Singing: A Manual of Bel Canto (Faber Music Ltd, 1974; 2nd edition 1981). It is illuminated throughout by the author's practical and musical insights, and illustrated with exercises from original Bel Canto manuals.`The publication of this book must surely herald a change of attitude. Lucie Manén's clear exposition of her solidly grounded theories and well-tried practice will prompt wise, healthy, and positive questioning of established methods, and should serve to bring about a long-overdue revolution in that least-regulated of all professions, the teaching of singing.' (From the Preface by Brian Trowell)`Lucie Manén has more qualifications than any singer I have ever met for writing a Manual for singers. There have been learned books on the voice but the authors have not been singers; there have been biographies and autobiographies whose subjects have revealed a personal secret or two. But there have been few who have combined experience as a singer with a deep and wide learning so convincingly as Madame Manén.' Peter Pears

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`The publication of this book must surely herald a change of attitude. Lucie Manen's clear exposition of her solidly grounded theroies and well-tried practice will prompt wise, healthy, and positive questioning of established methods, and should `it is a synthesis of a life's work and is written with style and considerable insight ... It will provide a focus for much debate ... the book allows the reader a fascinating insight into a significant cultural definition of singing as art Graham Welch, `Lucie Manen had a unique knowledge of singing: she did more research on the origins of singing, it history and its physical form, than any other person I know of; she was a singer herself (pre-war Glyndebourne) and she was a constructive and penetrating teacher. Bel Canto is a brilliant synthesis, guide and vademecum for any singer and it is mercifully brief and comparatively free of jargon. An interesting sidelight on her work is that, without her help, Peter Pears would have given up singing before Benjamin Britten wrote his last opera `Death in Venice'. So, in a way, we owe Lucie for Britten's last masterpiece composed especially for Peter Pears' extra lease of singing life.' John Amis

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