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Book The Castrato

    Book Details:
  • Author : Martha Feldman
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2016-08-02
  • ISBN : 0520292448
  • Pages : 496 pages

Download or read book The Castrato written by Martha Feldman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Castrato is a nuanced exploration of why innumerable boys were castrated for singing between the mid-sixteenth and late-nineteenth centuries. It shows that the entire foundation of Western classical singing, culminating in bel canto, was birthed from an unlikely and historically unique set of desires, public and private, aesthetic, economic, and political. In Italy, castration for singing was understood through the lens of Catholic blood sacrifice as expressed in idioms of offering and renunciation and, paradoxically, in satire, verbal abuse, and even the symbolism of the castrato’s comic cousin Pulcinella. Sacrifice in turn was inseparable from the system of patriarchy—involving teachers, patrons, colleagues, and relatives—whereby castrated males were produced not as nonmen, as often thought nowadays, but as idealized males. Yet what captivated audiences and composers—from Cavalli and Pergolesi to Handel, Mozart, and Rossini—were the extraordinary capacities of castrato voices, a phenomenon ultimately unsettled by Enlightenment morality. Although the castrati failed to survive, their musicality and vocality have persisted long past their literal demise.

Book Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum

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Book Le feste d Apollo  celebrate sul teatro di corte nell agosto del 1769  per le auguste seguite nozze tra il reale infante don Ferdinando e la R  arciduchessa infanta Maria Amalia

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Book Catalogues of Items for Auction by Messrs  Sotheby  Wilkinson   Hodge  1850 1880

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Book Festivals and Ceremonies

Download or read book Festivals and Ceremonies written by Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 2000 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an annotated source bibliography of over 2,800 European court festival works. It allows access to many rare accounts of court festivals. Extensive indexes provide ruler's name, court name, territory, type of entertainment performed, composers and artists. There are numerous cross-references.

Book The British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books  1881 1900

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Book Le feste d Apollo

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  • Author : Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1769
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 90 pages

Download or read book Le feste d Apollo written by Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck and published by . This book was released on 1769 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum

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Book Catalog of the Theatre and Drama Collections

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Book I libretti italiani a stampa dalle origini al 1800  E K

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Book Catalogue of Printed Books

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Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

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Book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library  1911 1971

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Book Music  a Catalog of Manuscripts   Printed Books

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Book Catalogue

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Book General catalogue of printed books

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Book Le feste d Apollo  celebrate sul teatro di corte nell agosto del 1769 per le nozze tra il R  Infante Don Ferdinando e la R  Arciduchessa Infanta Maria Amalia

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