# The fourth movement, Scena e canto gitano (" Scene and gypsy song ") opens with five cadenzas — first by the horns and trumpets, then solo violin, flute, clarinet, and harp — played over rolls on various percussion instruments.

The canto then gives accounts of raids in the Moorish territory in which Cid and his men get rich off of the spoils.

This theme recurs in the line " a man on whom the sun has gone down ", a reference to the nekuia from canto I, which is then explicitly referred to.

The canto then moves on to a longish passage of memories of the moribund literary scene Pound encountered in London when he first arrived, with the phrase " beauty is difficult ", quoted from Aubrey Beardsley, acting as a refrain.

The canto then closes with two passages, one a pastiche of Browning, the other of Edward Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, lamenting the lost London of Pound's youth and an image of nature as designer.

The canto then moves through memories of Spain, a story told by Basil Bunting, and anecdotes of a number of familiar personages and of George Santayana.

The canto then closes with more on economics.

The canto then proceeds to look at examples of benevolent action by public figures that, for Pound, illustrate this maxim.

The canto, and sequence, then closes with an extended treatment of the passage from the fifth book of the Odyssey in which a drowning Odysseus / Pound is rescued by Leucothea.

At the beginning of canto 2, after the " feigning dreame " and " faire-forged Spright " tell Archimago they failed to seduce Redcross, the enchanter first throws a fit and then moderates his behavior in a swerve that duplicates Redcross's swing from " fierce despight " to " sufferance wise " ( 1. 1. 50 ).

She asserted that there were only two styles of singing: " the good ... and the bad " and argued that a properly trained vocalist could sing the old bel canto style just as easily as the then newer, more dramatic style.

When asked about her repertory change in interviews the singer consistently states her intention to keep singing bel canto roles for as long as possible in order to maintain vocal health as she moves toward the heavier roles.

The canto moves on through a long passage remembering Pound's time as Yeats ' secretary in 1914 and a shorter meditation on the decline in standards in public life deriving from a remembered visit to the senate in the company of Pound's mother while that house was in session.

Towards the end of the canto, the Make it new ideograms from Canto LIII reappear as the poem moves back towards the world of myth, closing with another phrase from the Divine Comedy, this time from Purgatorio, Canto XXVIII.

After more memories of America and Venice, the canto ends in a passage that brings together Dante's celestial rose, the rose formed by the effect of a magnet on iron filings, an image from Paul Verlaine of a fountain playing in the moonlight, and a reference to a poem by Ben Jonson in a composite image of hope for " those who have passed over Lethe ".

The prolonged, climatic coloratura mad scene for Lucia in Donizetti's 1835 bel canto opera Lucia di Lammermoor is based on what in the novel were just a few bland sentences.

Over 10 million more spectators watched the TV show, Il V ° canto dell ’ Inferno (" The 5th Song of Hell "), broadcast by Rai Uno on 29 November 2007, with re-runs on Rai International.

Both of them featured bel canto works, dating from Rubini's day, in their operatic repertoires, and both of them can be heard on recordings which faithfully capture the distinct shimmer inherent in their timbre.

Another current popular approach that is based on the bel canto model is to divide both men and women's voices into three registers.

Rameau's comic opera Les Paladins ( 1760 ) is based on a story in canto 18 of Orlando ( though Rameau's librettist derived the plot indirectly via La Fontaine's Contes ).

First produced at La Scala on December 26, 1831, it is generally regarded as an example of the supreme height of the bel canto tradition.

* Tinamou sounds on the xeno canto collection

Surendra Verma's Hindi play Athavan Sarga, published in 1976, is based on the legend that Kālidāsa could not complete his epic Kumārasambhava because he was cursed by the goddess Pārvati, for obscene descriptions of her conjugal life with Lord Shiva in the eighth canto.

His Introdutione facilissima et novissima de canto ferma ( Rome, 1553, and again at Venice, 1561 ), contains an introduction to music, a section on improvised counterpoint, and his views on the three genera.

La sonnambula ( The Sleepwalker ) is an opera semiseria in two acts, with music in the bel canto tradition by Vincenzo Bellini to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani, based on a scenario for a ballet-pantomime by Eugène Scribe and Jean-Pierre Aumer called La somnambule, ou L ' arrivée d ' un nouveau seigneur.

Callas, in contrast, considered herself a dramatic coloratura soprano and started her career in the heaviest roles, but soon after, concentrated on the bel canto repertoire, which were not a good fit for Tebaldi's vocal range and technique.

Gruberová has made many recordings, most notably in recent years full-length recordings and extended selections from Donizetti's Tudor Queens trilogy and other bel canto operas, lately exclusively on Nightingale label.

The first canto, Christ's Victory in Heaven, represents a dispute in heaven between justice and mercy, using the facts of Christ's life on earth ; the second, Christ's Victory on Earth, deals with an allegorical account of Christ's Temptation ; the third, Christ's Triumph over Death, covers the Passion ; and the fourth, Christ's Triumph after Death, covering the Resurrection and Ascension, ends with an affectionate eulogy of his brother Phineas as Thyrsilis.

The term was never used in the most famous Italian texts on singing: Giulio Caccini's Le Nuove musiche ( 1601 / 2 ); Pier Francesco Tosi's, Opinioni de ' cantori antichi e moderni ( 1723 ); Giovanni Battista Mancini's Pensieri, e riflessioni pratiche sopra il canto figurato ( 1774 ); Manuel García's Mémoire sur la voix humaine ( 1841 ), and Traité complet de l ’ art du chant ( 1840 – 47 ); nor was it used by the English authors Charles Burney ( 1726 – 1814 ) and Henry Fothergill Chorley ( 1808 – 1872 ), both of whom wrote at length about Italian singing of a period when ornamentation was essential.

It is a verse tragedy based on the story of Paolo and Francesca from the fifth canto of Dante's Inferno.

This can be contrasted to another music ideal, bel canto, which intends to exploit human speech organs on the highest level to achieve an almost “ superhuman ” sound.

This canto begins with Pound looking out of the DTC at peasants working in the fields nearby and reflecting on the news of the death of Mussolini, " hung by the heels ".

These images are often intimately associated with the poet's close observation of the natural world as it imposes itself on the camp ; birds, a lizard, clouds, the weather and other images of nature run through the canto.

But all this, I am well aware, is the bel canto of love, and although I have always liked to think that it was to the bel canto and to that alone that I listened, I know well enough that it was not.

His bel canto style gave the performance a special distinction.

A few of Rossini's operas remained popular throughout his lifetime and continuously since his demise ; others were resurrected from semi-obscurity in the last half of the 20th century, during the so-called " bel canto revival.

Although dissatisfied with his return to Florence, Boccaccio continued to work, producing Comedia delle ninfe fiorentine ( also known as Ameto ) a mix of prose and poems, in 1341, completing the fifty canto allegorical poem Amorosa visione in 1342, and Fiammetta in 1343.

An example of this is Vladimir Nabokov's novel Pale Fire, the second section of which is a 999 line, 4 canto poem largely written in loose heroic couplets but also allowing for frequent enjambment.

Here is an example from the first canto.

* El canto de salvación.

File: Blake Hell 34 Lucifer. jpg | Lucifer, by William Blake, for Dante's Inferno, canto 34

The first third of the 19th century saw the highpoint of the bel canto style, with Rossini, Donizetti and Bellini all creating works that are still performed today.

The bel canto opera movement flourished in the early 19th century and is exemplified by the operas of Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Pacini, Mercadante and many others.

Literally " beautiful singing ", bel canto opera derives from the Italian stylistic singing school of the same name.

Bel canto lines are typically florid and intricate, requiring supreme agility and pitch control.

Following the bel canto era, a more direct, forceful style was rapidly popularized by Giuseppe Verdi, beginning with his biblical opera Nabucco.

Carl Maria von Weber established German Romantic opera in opposition to the dominance of Italian bel canto.

By the 1820s, Gluckian influence in France had given way to a taste for Italian bel canto, especially after the arrival of Rossini in Paris.

Many of the most challenging tenor roles in the repertory were written during the bel canto era, such as Donizetti's sequence of 9 Cs above middle C during La fille du régiment.

* Dante Alighieri has Odysseus append a new ending to the Odyssey in canto XXVI of the Inferno.

* The first canto of Ezra Pound's The Cantos ( 1922 ) is both a translation and a retelling of Odysseus ' journey to the underworld.

Complex palindromes appear in the 19th canto of the 8th-century epic poem Śiśupāla-vadha by Magha.

* A canto was quoted and used as an underlying theme of the 1945 screen adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray: " I sent my soul through the invisible, some letters of that after-life to spell, and by and by my soul did return, and answered, ' I myself am Heaven and Hell.

Known for his long-flowing melodic lines, for which he was named " the Swan of Catania ", Bellini was the quintessential composer of bel canto opera.

Along with Vincenzo Bellini and Gioachino Rossini, he was a leading composer of bel canto opera.

It became his most famous opera, and one of the high points of the bel canto tradition, reaching stature similar to Bellini's Norma.