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The Castrato : Reflections on Natures and Kinds /
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 de...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Italiano |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Contents; Preface; Note on Textual Transcription, Translations, Lexicon, and Musical Nomenclature; PART ONE. REPRODUCTION; 1. Of Strange Births and Comic Kin; 2. The Man Who Pretended to Be Who He Was: A Tale of Reproduction; PART TWO. VOICE; 3. Red Hot Voice; 4. Castrato De Luxe; PART THREE. HALF-LIGHT; 5. Cold Man, Money Man, Big Man Too; 6. Shadow Voices, Castrato and Non; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; List of Illustrations; Index. | |
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
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