bel canto

• POS: Noun Phrase
• HYPHEN: bel can=to

CIDE DICTIONARY

bel canto, n. [It., beautiful singing.].

 a cantabile style of operatic singing characterized by purity and evenness of tone, and a precise but brilliant vocal technique displaying ease and agility.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

bel canto, n.
1 a lyrical style of operatic singing using a full rich broad tone and smooth phrasing.
2 (attrib.) (of a type of aria or voice) characterized by this type of singing.

Etymology

It., = fine song

THESAURUS

bel canto

bravura, choral singing, coloratura, croon, crooning, folk singing, hum, humming, intonation, lyricism, operatic singing, scat, scat singing, singing, sol-fa, sol-fa exercise, solfeggio, solmization, song, tonic sol-fa, vocal music, vocalization, warbling, yodel, yodeling