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The paper draws attention to the stylistic aspects of vocal interpretation in the historical context of the genres and forms of non-art music. The increasingly wide range of genres, along with the unstoppable development of technology and the media, gave rise to the necessity of systematization and categorization in the field of non-art music. While classic vocal techniques characterized trained singers and performing artists, the folk singers, chansonniers, singers of couplets, of musicals and jazz went their own...

The contribution focuses on historical relationships of the development of vocal performance and vocal pedagogy in the second half of the 20th century, which is definitely based on the classical vocal performance and vocal pedagogy respecting the bel canto principle of singing. The Slovak vocal school fully respected the Italian bel canto principle of singing. The founding personality of the vocal pedagogy in Slovakia was a Czech violinist, composer, singer and teacher Josef Egem, who adopted the bel canto singing...