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	Belcanto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bel canto singing is characterized by a focus on perfect evenness throughout the voice, skillful legato, a light upper register, tremendous agility and flexibility, and a certain lyric, "sweet" timbre.
		Emphasizing technique over volume, bel canto style has famously been linked to an exercise said to demonstrate its epitome, where a singer holds a lit candle to her mouth and sings without causing the flame to flicker.
		While the bel canto period is typically dated to the early 19th century, the term itself did not come to be commonly used in its current sense until the middle of the 19th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bel_canto (338 words)

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		To sing bel canto opera is supremely difficult, calling for exceptional refinement of tone, agility, legato, range, and breath control.
		Several contemporary singers who are well-known for their bel canto technique are the soprano Edith Gruberova, the mezzo-soprano Cecelia Bartoli, and the counter-tenor David Daniels.
		The soprano Maria Callas was the best-known bel canto singer of the postwar period.
	www.informationgenius.com /encyclopedia/b/be/bel_canto.html (124 words)

	The Bel Canto technique
		Bel canto technique emerged in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but its roots lie all the way through the Middle Ages.
		Bel canto means, most literally, "beautiful singing." It is a term used to describe all Italian singing, but in particular the light, bright quality that Italian opera singers use to charm audiences.
		Bel canto was initially used by men, and, at its earliest, by male religious singers.
	mama.essortment.com /belcantotechni_rgwg.htm (558 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		As the days become weeks and the weeks flow into months, an uneasy rhythm marks the time spent in captivity as the world is reduced to the four walls of the Vice President's mansion.
		The beauty of the music is always present -- "soon enough the days were divided into three states: the anticipation of her signing, the pleasure of her signing, and the reflection of her singing" -- in stark contrast to the harsh reality of the situation.
		Mesmerizing with its lyrical prose, Bel Canto builds to an unexpected and poignant crescendo that resonates with emotion.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/bel_canto1.asp (1044 words)

	classical music - andante - a new first lady of bel canto
		Bel canto tends to be career-making repertoire for young singers — the sheer athleticism is so thrilling that it can't help attracting attention.
		Maria Callas and Beverly Sills both stuck with bel canto, though Sills admitted that her choice of roles took a decade off her career and some opera pundits believe Callas would have added years to hers had she traded Bellini for something like Schubert.
		One of the first things we're all taught about bel canto is that the score is a blueprint rather than the totality — the composer supplies the notes, with the performer expected to provide the emotional life — but that's only the beginning of the creative challenges involved in this repertory.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=18473 (1164 words)

	bel canto -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Using a relatively small dynamic range, bel canto singing was based on an exact control of the...
		In its physical aspect, singing has a well-defined technique that depends on the use of the lungs, which act as an air supply, or bellows; on the larynx, which acts as a reed or vibrator; on the chest and head cavities, which have the function of an amplifier, as the tube...
		Born in Madrid, Spain, of Italian parents, Patti was a famous bel canto singer known for her wonderfully pure voice that kept its freshness even in her later years, an amazing evenness throughout a wide vocal range, and technical skill.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9015169?tocId=9015169 (860 words)

	About the Bel Canto Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Bel Canto Company, the only professional chorus in the Piedmont Triad, has acquired a reputation as the finest choral ensemble in the Southeast by establishing the highest standards in choral music and performance.
		Bel Canto Company is a professional choral ensemble dedicated to excellence in the performance of choral literature from all historical periods, and to the development of greater understanding, appreciation and enjoyment of choral music for its audiences.
		Bel Canto Company is a non-profit, tax-exempt corporation, a professional member of Chorus America, a funded member agency of the United Arts Council of Greensboro and receives the support of the Grassroots Arts Program, the North Carolina Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
	www.greensboro.com /belcanto/aboutthe.htm (1333 words)

	Bel Canto at Musical Discoveries
		Bel Canto is one of the top acts in Norway with numerous gold records to their credit.
		Maybe Bel Canto have matured--likely the duo have experienced love and sorrow in their own lives--whatever the case, Bel Canto show that they can still write amazingly original music that is transporting and sonorous.
		Bel Canto's compilation of best-of material is a treasure for any collection (WEA (Norway) 9548 49720 2, 2001) serving to capture the band's work--from 1987 through 2001--for long-time enthusiasts as well as newcomers.
	www.musicaldiscoveries.com /reviews/belcanto.htm (4239 words)

	Bel Canto And Brass Playing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Bel Canto School was the most famous of all vocal schools dating back to the 16th century and is still, to a great extent, in practice today.
		The relationship between the Bel Canto techniques and brass playing can be applied to the teaching and development of skills of any instrumentalist.
		The Bel Canto masters would sometimes imitate the problems of the student in order to make the student aware of faults which he might not have otherwise noticed.
	www.charlescolin.com /nybc/belcanto.htm (1191 words)

	Stereophile: Music in the Round #3
		As on all current Bel Canto designs, the Pre6's control panel is a large fl oval surrounded by a brushed-aluminum faceplate.
		Bel Canto's manual offers aid in the form of flow charts, but I found them confusing and too small to read.
		A distress call to Bel Canto resulted in their sending an interface board for the front PCB SIP connector, a serial cable for my laptop, and a disc of software.
	www.stereophile.com /musicintheround/1203round/index2.html (1743 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Special Reports \| Outsider romps home in the Orange stakes
		Ann Patchett's novel Bel Canto, about a hostage taking which turns into comic opera, romped home despite being rated at only 7-1, lower than any of the other five books shortlisted for the women only awards.
		Bel Canto, according to its publishers, is about an unusual hostage situation, in which "two couples fall in love and horrific imprisonment is transformed into an unexpected heaven on earth".
		William Hill ranked Bel Canto equal at 6-1 with Anna Burns's No Bones, about being young in Northern Ireland, until "a substantial three figure sum" was wagered on Burns at Hill's branch in Twickenham, west London.
	books.guardian.co.uk /orangeprize2002/story/0,11817,735865,00.html (491 words)

	The Bel Canto Design SETi40 Integrated Amplifier
		The Bel Canto SETi40 integrated amplifier is a highly refined piece of technology that deserves our admiration for its level of sophistication and ease of use.
		Bel Canto has some good reasons for going this route, as outlined in a white paper on the company's web site.
		The Bel Canto SETi40 sounds so different from the other tube amplifiers I have been listening to that I wasn't sure I could muster the vocabulary to tell you about it.
	www.audiophilia.com /hardware/seti40.htm (1881 words)

	UI Center For Human Rights Selects 'Bel Canto' For Fall 2003 Book Project
		Winner of the Pen/Faulkner Award and a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, "Bel Canto" is a moving and often surprising story of terrorism gone awry and the power of music to create unlikely connections between disparate people.
		As opera star Roxanne Coss completes her performance during a birthday party thrown by a small South American government for a powerful Japanese businessman, the lights go out and the entire party is taken hostage by a group of terrorists hoping to kidnap the country's (absent) president.
		A gripping story that neither moralizes nor falls victim to cliche, "Bel Canto" is buoyed by Patchett's warm and wry prose.
	www.uiowa.edu /%7Eournews/2003/march/031203uichr-book.html (479 words)

	Bel Canto Trio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Bel Canto Trio was created by Columbia Artists Management in 1947.
		Consisting of tenor Mario Lanza, soprano Frances Yeend and bass-baritone George London, the Bel Canto Trio performed 86 concerts throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico between July 1947 and May 1948.
		This article on a band or other musical ensemble is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bel_Canto_Trio (90 words)

	Bel Canto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Milwaukee's oldest performing organization, Bel Canto draws 130 singers from SE Wisconsin and NE Illinois to perform an annual, four-concert season...
		Some bel canto operas are seen to their best advantage in smaller, more intimate performance spaces.
		Bel Canto Society sells both contemporary and restored historical videotapes, CDS and DVDs of operas and opera singers...
	www.simplybritneyspears.info /browse/bel-canto.html (229 words)

	Amazon.com: Music: Bel Canto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Although she has in the past performed Bel Canto many would argue her ability to accurately perform this material is long behind but I think that she proves that she can match it with the best Bel canto singers around.
		She does have an ethereal beautiful voice, and this album - bel canto - is a showcase for gorgeous legato, pianissimi and coloratura trills and roulade fireworks.
		Bel canto is truly challenging, and it was for her, but she stepped up to the challenge and came out on top.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00006589U?v=glance (3081 words)

	Powell's Books - Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Bel Canto engenders in the reader the very passion for art and the language of music that its characters discover.
		Bel Canto is a virtuoso performance by one of our best and most important writers.
		The beauty of the music is always present — "soon enough the days were divided into three states: the anticipation of her signing, the pleasure of her signing, and the reflection of her singing" — in stark contrast to the harsh reality of the situation.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0060934417-5 (2396 words)

	Home of Chorale Bel Canto
		Chorale Bel Canto of Whittier, California is composed of over 80 selected voices from Whittier and surrounding areas, and made its debut performance on Saturday, December 4, 1982 at the Whittier Presbyterian Church performing Handel's Messiah under the direction of founder Whittier College Professor of Music, Stephen Gothold.
		Chorale Bel Canto is a community-based masterworks chorale whose mission is to present quality musical programming for the cultural benefit of the community as well as to provide a demanding and satisfying artistic outlet for qualified singers.
		The Chorale is dedicated to preserving the choral art through the preparation and performance of great choral/orchestral literature, approached with dignity and integrity, and presented in settings appropriate to the historical style, function, and uniqueness of each individual work.
	www.choralebelcanto.org (290 words)

	Ann Patchett
		"Bel Canto moves elegantly through its paces, captors and captivates alike stumble on that most elusive liberty: the freedom to be."
		"Bel Canto by Ann Patchett should be on the list of every literate music lover.
		The story is riveting, the participants breathe and feel and are alive, and throughout this elegantly-told novel, music pours forth so spendidly that the reader hears it and is overwhelmed by its beauty.
	www.annpatchett.com /belcanto.html (500 words)

	Home Theater & Sound Equipment Review -- Bel Canto Design PrePro Suround-Sound Processor (11/2004)
		The term bel canto is most often used in opera, where it means "beautiful singing." It takes some courage to give such a name to your company, but Bel Canto Design has developed an enviable reputation for making sweet-sounding components.
		The Bel Canto was the most transparent-sounding and -looking of the remaining three, closely followed by the Sunfire and then the Fosgate.
		On a hunch, I checked the Minnesota Opera’s website for their definition of bel canto, which they say "is defined stylistically by the effortless and expressive delivery of tone, a mastery of appropriate musical style and the natural beauty of the voice." That’s a pretty good description of the Bel Canto Design PRePro.
	www.hometheatersound.com /equipment/belcantodesign_prepro.htm (1674 words)

	SoundStage! Equipment Review - Bel Canto Design DAC2 Digital-to-Analog Converter (8/2002)
		Bel Canto tied the circuit together on a four-layer PC board with multiple regulated power supplies, dual regulation for the DAC stage, and an improved overall layout.
		For comparison, I had on hand my Bel Canto DAC1.1, which was updated from a stock DAC1 a little over a year ago.
		Bel Canto also kept the price the same, although there is a rather steep charge for those DAC1 owners who want to upgrade.
	www.soundstage.com /revequip/belcanto_dac2.htm (2119 words)

	Bel Canto community offers views, large lots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Bel Canto, Cachet Homes' 55-lot community in northeast Scottsdale, offers all of the above.
		Lots are more or less an acre, and, depending on the size, can be built with a casita that comes with a bedroom, sitting area and bathroom.
		In the two-story, five bedroom, 4,149-square-foot Fortissimo, one of six floor plans at northeast Scottsdale's Bel Canto, the large front porch partially wraps around one side.
	www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/home/articles/0604modelrev0604.html (747 words)

	Area Readers Invited To 'Bel Canto' Discussion Forums
		Those reading Ann Patchett's novel "Bel Canto" as part of the third annual reading program "One Community, One Book - Johnson County Reads" will have plenty of opportunities to meet other readers and share their reactions at any of the eight community discussion forums scheduled throughout Johnson County from late September through early November.
		A planning committee chose "Bel Canto" last spring, and the project runs from Sept. 22 to Nov.15.
		Bel Canto Book Discussion Kits are available for two-month checkout from the Iowa City Public Library by contacting Kara Logsden, 356-5200, or mailto:klogsden@icpl.org.
	www.uiowa.edu /%7Eournews/2003/august/082903belcanto.html (696 words)

	StereoTimes -- The Bel Canto eVo2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Bel Canto's all digital eVo amplifier has been my favorite amplifier for some time now.
		Bel Canto has obviously taken the improvements learned in their multi-channel amplification research and design department and successfully amalgamated the best of these into this two-channel racehorse.
		It appears Bel Canto arrived for the big dance dressed in a tux.
	www.stereotimes.com /amp010903.shtm (2024 words)

	SoundStage! Earmarked - The Sound of Power: Bel Canto Design EVo 200.4 Amplifier (5/2001)
		And that, in short, is what you get when you mate the four-channel Bel Canto EVo 200.4, bridged to dual-mono for 360Wpc continuous, with the Bel Canto PRe1 solid-state remote-controlled preamp.
		I will thus report on the Bel Canto PRe1 in depth in another installment, to investigate its interaction with the Art Audio PX-25, how it compares to the tubed Gill Alana in that setting, and how both make out in the bypass test against the simple amp-mounted attenuator.
		In the US press, the Bel Canto Design EVo 200.2 amplifier has garnered a Reviewers' Choice designation from our own editor-in-chief as well as Stereophile’s Class A ranking.
	www.soundstage.com /earmarked/earmarked200105.htm (3295 words)

	Renee Fleming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Long admired for her mastery of the operas of Mozart and Strauss, Fleming returns to the music that inspired her to become a singer: the ineffably beautiful and poignant melodies of Bellini, Rossini and Donizetti.
		In fact, the early part of Fleming's career was dominated by bel canto opera, long before she became famous and admired for the music of Mozart and Strauss.
		As she says: "I feel that bel canto is the very definition of everything that is great singing in that it requires the greatest accomplishment of all of the vocal repertoire.
	www.deccaclassics.com /features/fleming/bel_canto/01_english/sings.html (381 words)

	Laure-Cinthie Damoreau: CLASSIC BEL CANTO TECHNIQUE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In this superb guide by a bel canto master, today’s singers will find a rare resource for attaining the glorious sound of the l8th-centuiy Italian vocal technique, considered the only proper preparation for Mozart’s operas and the pre-Romantic Italian operas of Donizetti, Bellini, Rossini and others.
		At the height of bel canto’s popularity during the early and middle 19th century, renowned teachers and singers compiled invaluable teaching materials that have since slipped into obscurity.
		This volume represents a gem from this lost treasury of bel canto training manuals—a renowned publi- cation by French soprano Laure-Cinthie Damoreau (1801—1863), who played leading roles in operas by Rossini, Auber, Spontini, and Meyerbeer, and taught at the Paris Conservatoire for 22 years.
	www.midi-classics.com /p5750.htm (359 words)

	Encyclopedia Gothica: Bel Canto
		Bel Canto is a unique band which was formed in 1986 in Tromsø, Norway.
		(Bel Canto is also a kind of opera and in Italian Bel Canto means "beautiful song".) Bel Canto is now one of the most famous Norwegian bands.
		They have (March 8th) received awards that proves that Bel Canto is the best Norwegian music group.
	www.waningmoon.com /gothica/articles/6660006.shtml (148 words)

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