Bel canto : a history of vocal pedagogy
"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 techninques and selects a number of primary vocal 'problems' for detailed investigation. He also presents data from a series of laboratory experiments carried out to demonstrate the techniques of bel canto."--BOOK JACKET
Print Book, English, 2003, ©1999
Reprinted in paperback 2003
University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2003, ©1999