Hello, my friend! The team of wise men sincerely serve you (* _ *) Bel Canto, which literally means' beautiful singing', first appeared in Florence, Italy in the17th century, and spread to other major music centers in Italy in that century; Venice, Rome, Naples and later Milan. At that time, only the so-called "eunuch singers" used that special breath to control falsetto. In Italy and Europe, women are always excluded from the theatres of Catholic churches in many central cities. Both male and female roles are played by neutral people, and some great singers dominated the Italian opera stage for part of the18th century. Bel canto was strictly kept secret by professional teachers and students before19th century. This is a vocal art taught through oral communication. However, there is no doubt that it is based on a special pronunciation method. Later, Gatano Nava and Charles Steiner, a famous baritone vocal teacher in Milan, broke through the strict confidentiality regulations and distributed a vocal exercise book to his students, named Practical Vocal Exercise Method, which was made public. Bel canto, originally a beautiful song, is usually translated as "Bel canto or Bel canto", which refers to a kind of singing method that pays attention to the beauty of timbre in 17 and 18 centuries.

Bel canto has a lower throat position than other singing methods, which is one of its characteristics. Therefore, this kind of singing can produce bright, plump, loose and round sound quality, which is metallic and rich in * * *. In addition, Bel Canto also attaches great importance to the coherence of syntax, the flexibility of voice, the combination of rigidity and softness, and the singing style with softness as the main feature, which are also the characteristics of Bel Canto.

The formation of bel canto;

Bel canto, like opera, originated from the Florentine art group in Italy. When this art group is brewing opera with a challenging attitude, it is actually creating a new singing method, that is, "Bel Canto". Caccini became the earliest advocate and practitioner of this singing method, and had a decisive influence on the formation of this new singing method.

1594, after the birth of the first opera Daphne in the history of world music in Florence, Italy, the first opera Eurydice (1600) co-created by Italian composer Perry and Caccini still has a complete score. In Perry's and Caccini's operas, the music is mainly monotonous recitation, interspersed with chorus and dance. Later, in the Italian composer Monteverdi's opera, he refined the monotonous recitation tones of Perry and Caccini, enriched the musical language of recitation tones, and obtained a symmetrical form, thus heralding the birth of opera aria. In his opera creation, the aria form of a-b-a structure has also begun to take shape. In scarlatti's opera creation, a-b-a aria with rich melody has been established as the center of the opera. As a solo form, aria is often arranged at the critical moment of the development of drama plot to express people's thoughts and feelings in a specific situation. It is the core passage in opera. Aria singing pays attention to beautiful sound quality and gorgeous singing skills, which are often better than drama performance. In the opera of Naples Conservatory of Music, drama performance and band accompaniment are subordinate. The traditional chorus and ballet scenes are not used in the play, but highly developed solo skills are used. Because the solo aria requires the singer to have superb singing skills and beautiful sound quality, a new vocal singing style came into being, which is "Bel Canto".

17 and 18 centuries, the earliest practitioners of bel canto were eunuch singers. They pushed opera to its peak with bel canto. Therefore, this period is called the "Golden Age of Bel Canto" in the history of music. /kloc-In the 8th century, Tosi and Mancini published their works on Bel Canto respectively, and elaborated this kind of singing in detail.

Spanish vocal theorist-West Asia

/kloc-In the 20th century, Bel Canto reached its peak in Italy. Garcia is a famous Spanish vocal music teacher and vocal music theorist, who has made outstanding contributions to the development of Bel Canto and Bel Canto School. He not only toured with his father, the old tenor Garcia, in the United States and other places, but also studied the physiological problems of human body and vocalization according to his own experience, and submitted a paper "Research Report on Human Voice" to the French Academy of Sciences in April 184 1. 1847 published an essay on the art of singing ... Garcia invented the laryngoscope in 1855. Laryngoscope plays an important role in observing and studying the physiological changes of human voice. He observed by laryngoscope, combined with his years of teaching and singing practice, and found that poor vocal cord closure was the main reason for hoarseness, air leakage and dull tone, and thus put forward the theory of "glottic impact". At that time, many people in the vocal music circle thought that he advocated the use of guttural voice because they had different understandings of the word "influence". Later, through his teaching achievements and his "Some Experiences in Singing" published in 1894, his theory was finally understood and accepted by the vocal music community. Since then, the tradition of "dictation" of Bel Canto School has been broken. Garcia has been engaged in vocal music teaching for 75 years and has trained a large number of outstanding vocal music talents. He is a typical representative of Italian bel canto school in19th century.

Since Bel Canto came into being, its singing style and skills have been developing with the development of the times and the works it sings. This singing method is one of the most authoritative and representative singing methods in the art of singing because of its strong scientific nature. I hope you are satisfied with my answer. Have a nice day o(∩_∩)o