Bel canto – Wikipedia

Bel canto (Italian for “beautiful singing” or “beautiful song”, pronounced [ˌbɛl ˈkanto])—with several similar constructions (bellezze del canto, bell’arte del canto)—is a term with several meanings that relate to Italian singing.. The phrase was not associated with a “school” of singing until the middle of the 19th century, when writers in the early 1860s used it nostalgically to …

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