Talk:Bel canto

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This is just meaningless nitpicking, but would "soprani" be correct for two women? If you're going to use the Italian plural form, then shouldn't you also use Italian gender agreement, and call them "soprane"? Or is there precedent for "soprani" that I couldn't find? --The Amazing Superking 06:08, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

This article could include a subsection on the method of Alan Lindquest which is based upon bel canto but more personalised and often used for recouperative purposes. KP 22:12, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

"Some have credited the 17th century composer Pietro Cavalli with introducing bel canto, but his smooth and flowing melodic lines belong to a different style from a different era." - This sounds like weasel words to me. Who are these "some"? On what authority do we claim Cavalli "belongs to a different style"? Anonymous 20:13, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the debate was move. —Nightstallion (?) 08:01, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Requested move

  • Talk:Belcanto — Belcanto → Bel canto – Bel canto is the more accepted (and common) English name, and is the one used in the authoritative source, the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Belcanto seems to be a German invention. — Makemi 18:36, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
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  • Support as nominator. Makemi 18:40, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Support. David Kernow 20:48, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Support. --GuillaumeTell 21:33, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Support. Kleinzach 22:18, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Discussion

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  • Compare [1] and [2] for pages only in English. Makemi 18:40, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
  • And Google asks us if we meant Bel canto, too! --GuillaumeTell 21:33, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Also, clicking on What links here on the Belcanto page gets you here: Special:Whatlinkshere/Belcanto, where it is immediately apparent that far more pages are linked to the Bel canto redirect than to the page itself. --GuillaumeTell 18:48, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

[edit] Please, see it.wiki

The current meaning of the term "belcanto" is a big historiographical mistake. I have no time to translate. If somebody here knows Italian language, see my article at it:Belcanto. Thanks --Al Pereira(talk) 03:08, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Photograph

The original photo accompanying this article was of Virginia Zeani (b. 1925) - Virginia_Zeani.jpg. That photo has disappeared. There is a copy(in gif format) accompanying the article on Zeani. It is a studio portrait with a very dubious copyright tag. "This image is ineligible for copyright and therefore is in the public domain, because it consists entirely of information that is common property and contains no original authorship." It has no further information about the photographer or date of publication. The photo was clearly taken after 1923 and by a professional photographer. To be on the safe side, I did not use this as a replacement, and have instead added a PD photo of Mathilde Marchesi, a bel canto teacher, listed in the references. Voceditenore 16:42, 26 April 2007 (UTC)