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  • Singing

    The First Art

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    The Italian singing technique Bel Canto instructs, "He who knows how to breathe and how to pronounce, knows how to sing." Singing: The First Art incorporates the techniques of Bel Canto along with those of masters like Berton Coffin and Manuel Garcia to promote and facilitate vocal excellence. Many concepts are described, from correct posture and alignment to improving and maintaining proper ... Read more

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  • The Czech Republic and the European Union

    Series series Europe and the Nation State
    This book examines the relationship between the Czech Republic and the European Union (EU). The authors examine the Czech Republic’s road to EU membership in 2004 and assess how EU accession has affected or changed the Czech Republic, including its domestic politics, governing institutions and public policies. It also examines how the Czech Republic has behaved as an EU member state, addressing ... Read more

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  • Giovanni Battista Rubini and the Bel Canto Tenors

    History and Technique

    by Dan H. Marek ...
    Giovanni Battista Rubini (1794–1854) was a legendary tenor and the first 19th-century non-castrati male singer to become an international star of opera. The previous two centuries had been the era of the castrati, with tenors and basses relegated to character and supporting roles in the operas of their time. Rubini stood apart because he not only matched the castrati in coloratura and pathos, but ... Read more

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  • The Divine Claudia

    The Life and Career of Claudia Muzio

    by Dan H. Marek ...
    “Muzio was a case apart: you cannot classify her, for in the end you have been so emotionally destroyed by her performance, you did not even know anymore what kind of instrument she had”. So spoke Lucrezia Bori, the beloved soprano of the Metropolitan Opera. Bori was echoing the opinion of many of Claudia Muzio’s contemporaries and successors such as Eva Turner, Rosa Ponselle, and Mafalda Favero ... Read more

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  • Alto

    The Voice of Bel Canto

    by Dan H. Marek ...
    Everyone is familiar with the words diva or prima donna, which have come to mean a (usually) outrageous operatic soprano, but there was a time when the star of the show was more often a contralto, or a soprano singing in today's mezzo-soprano range. This performer was referred to as an alto. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the male and female leading roles were likely to be sung by emasculated ... Read more

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  • The New Member States and the European Union

    Foreign Policy and Europeanization

    Edited by Michael Baun, Dan Marek ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in European Politics
    This book examines the impact of EU membership on the foreign policies of the 12 new member states that joined the EU in 2004 and 2007.Among scholars of European politics there is a general consensus that membership in the European Union changes the countries that join. Yet considerable debate remains over what exactly changes, to what extent, how or why these changes happen, and why some ... Read more

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  • Imagining Europe

    Essays on the Past, Present, and Future of the European Union

    Imagining Europe: Essays on the Past, Present and Future of the European Union examines the EU from a variety of perspectives. The collection begins with the expectation that, despite its challenges, the European Union is here to say, but it also proceeds from the premise that imaginative thinking is necessary to guide the 27 member organization into the future. The book offers nine chapters and a ... Read more

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  • Defeating Authoritarian Leaders in Postcommunist Countries

    Series series Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
    From 1998 to 2005, six elections took place in postcommunist Europe that had the surprising outcome of empowering the opposition and defeating authoritarian incumbents or their designated successors. Valerie J. Bunce and Sharon L. Wolchik compare these unexpected electoral breakthroughs. They draw three conclusions. First, the opposition was victorious because of the hard and creative work of a ... Read more

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    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
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