bel canton.
/bɛl ˈkantəʊ/ Singing characterized by full, rich, and broad tone.
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1894 G. Du Maurier Trilby I. i. 46 It was lost, the bel canto—but I found it.
1908 Daily Chron. 9 May 4/4 In New York musical critics complain that audiences do not want Wagner,..and that the public flocks to the Italian bel canto.
1920 Glasgow Herald 14 May 8 For pure bel canto the English blackbird is hard to beat.
1938 Oxf. Compan. Music 85 Bel canto..This comprehensive term covers the vocal qualities of the great singers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries—the palmy days of Italian singing.
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