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Download or read book Il Castrato written by Robert C. Novarro and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a child, Uccello is discovered to have a truly magnificent singing voice. It is decided that he will become a professional singer but at what cost? As the story unfolds, the reader uncovers the heights of a renowned 18th century singer juxtaposed to the seedy, treacherous existence of castrati. The amorous adventure of a young singer begins in Italy and takes him to the court of King George of England. Along the way, Uccello makes love to a bevy of courtly beauties who take him to their bed. In the end, though, he makes enemies of wealthy and powerful men who seek to bring the young singer to his fall.
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 Synopsis Opera and Sovereignty by : Martha Feldman
Download or read book Opera and Sovereignty written by Martha Feldman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performed throughout Europe during the 1700s, Italian heroic opera, or opera seria, was the century’s most significant musical art form, profoundly engaging such figures as Handel, Haydn, and Mozart. Opera and Sovereignty is the first book to address this genre as cultural history, arguing that eighteenth-century opera seria must be understood in light of the period’s social and political upheavals. Taking an anthropological approach to European music that’s as bold as it is unusual, Martha Feldman traces Italian opera’s shift from a mythical assertion of sovereignty, with its festive forms and rituals, to a dramatic vehicle that increasingly questioned absolute ideals. She situates these transformations against the backdrop of eighteenth-century Italian culture to show how opera seria both reflected and affected the struggles of rulers to maintain sovereignty in the face of a growing public sphere. In so doing, Feldman explains why the form had such great international success and how audience experiences of the period differed from ours today. Ambitiously interdisciplinary, Opera and Sovereignty will appeal not only to scholars of music and anthropology, but also to those interested in theater, dance, and the history of the Enlightenment.
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Download or read book Rivista Di Fisica, Matematica E Scienze Naturali written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Modern Castrato by : Patricia Howard
Download or read book The Modern Castrato written by Patricia Howard and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Modern Castrato: Gaetano Guadagni and the Coming of a New Operatic Age chronicles the career of the most significant castrato of the second half of the eighteenth-century. Guadagni may have been the only singer of the time fully able to understand the demands and opportunities of this reform, as well to possess the intelligence and self-knowledge to realize that it suited his skills, limitations and temperament perfectly--making him the first castrato to embrace the concepts of modern singing.
Book Synopsis Music and Patronage in Sixteenth-Century Mantua: Volume 1 by : Iain Fenlon
Download or read book Music and Patronage in Sixteenth-Century Mantua: Volume 1 written by Iain Fenlon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-30 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Viewed traditionally, the history of sixteenth-century Mantuan music is almost a catalogue of some of the most distinguished composers of the age, from Tromboncino and Cara, via Jacquet of Mantua, to Wert, Palestrina, Marenzio, Pallavicino, Gastoldi, Rossi and Monteverdi. The remarkable achievements of composers under Gonzaga patronage, practically synonymous with Mantuan patronage during this period, are treated here in their social context. The arguments proceed not just from the music itself, but from detailed examination of archival sources, from which Dr Fenlon reconstructs employment patterns and describes the social structure and institutional life of the city. The aim of the book is to show how the patterns of patronage, and music and musicians, reflect and illuminate the temperaments and prime preoccupations of successive rulers. The book contains a substantial appendix of unpublished archival documents, a small proportion only of the scholarly and comparative sources on which the study is based.
Book Synopsis Iconography of the New Empire by : Servando D. Halili
Download or read book Iconography of the New Empire written by Servando D. Halili and published by UP Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes a postcolonial reading of the American invasion and colonization of the Philippines in 1898. It considers how nineteenth-century American popular culture, specifically political cartoons and caricatures, influenced American foreign policy. These sources, drawn from several U.S. libraries and archives, show how race and gender ideologies significantly influenced the move of the U.S. to annex the Philippines. The book not only includes a significant collection of political cartoons and caricatures about Filipinos, it also offers an alternative interpretation of the reasons why the U.S. ventured into colonial expansion in Asia.
Book Synopsis The Eunuch in Byzantine History and Society by : Shaun Tougher
Download or read book The Eunuch in Byzantine History and Society written by Shaun Tougher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The existence of eunuchs was one of the defining features of the Byzantine Empire. Covering the whole span of the history of the empire, from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries AD, Shaun Tougher presents a comprehensive survey of the history and roles of eunuchs, making use of extensive comparative material, such as from China, Persia and the Ottoman Empire, as well as about castrato singers of the eighteenth century of Enlightenment Europe, and self-castrating religious devotees such as the Galli of ancient Rome, early Christians, the Skoptsy of Russia and the Hijras of India. The various roles played by eunuchs are examined. They are not just found as servile attendants; some were powerful political players – such as Chrysaphius who plotted to assassinate Attila the Hun – and others were prominent figures in Orthodoxy as bishops and monks. Furthermore, there is offered an analysis of how society thought about eunuchs, especially their gender identity - were they perceived as men, women, or a third sex? The broad survey of the political and social position of eunuchs in the Byzantine Empire is placed in the context of the history of the eunuch in general. An appendix listing key eunuchs of the Byzantine Empire describing their careers is included, and the text is fully illustrated.
Book Synopsis Ollendorff's New Method of Learning to Read, Write, and Speak the Italian Language Adapted for the Use of Schools and Private Teachers with Additions and Corrections by Felix Foresti by : Heinrich Gottfried Ollendorff
Download or read book Ollendorff's New Method of Learning to Read, Write, and Speak the Italian Language Adapted for the Use of Schools and Private Teachers with Additions and Corrections by Felix Foresti written by Heinrich Gottfried Ollendorff and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis New Method of Learning to Read, Write, and Speak the Italian Language by : Heinrich Gottfried Ollendorff
Download or read book New Method of Learning to Read, Write, and Speak the Italian Language written by Heinrich Gottfried Ollendorff and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A New Method ... Adapted to the Italian by : Heinrich Godefroy Ollendorff
Download or read book A New Method ... Adapted to the Italian written by Heinrich Godefroy Ollendorff and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A New Method Learning to Read Write and Speak a Language in Six Months Adapted to the Italian by : Heinrich Gottfried Ollendorff
Download or read book A New Method Learning to Read Write and Speak a Language in Six Months Adapted to the Italian written by Heinrich Gottfried Ollendorff and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A New Method of Learning to Read, Write, and Speak a Language in Six Months, Adapted to the Italian by : Heinrich Gottfried Ollendorff
Download or read book A New Method of Learning to Read, Write, and Speak a Language in Six Months, Adapted to the Italian written by Heinrich Gottfried Ollendorff and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A New Method of Learning to Read, Write and Speak a Language in Six Months, Adapted to the Italian for the Use of Schools and Private Teachers by H. G. Ollendorff by : Heinrich Gottfried Ollendorff
Download or read book A New Method of Learning to Read, Write and Speak a Language in Six Months, Adapted to the Italian for the Use of Schools and Private Teachers by H. G. Ollendorff written by Heinrich Gottfried Ollendorff and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Conversational Italian by : Michael Cagno
Download or read book Conversational Italian written by Michael Cagno and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1990-09-15 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cortina Method Conversational Italian in 20 Lessons, Illustrated Step by Step, these twenty lessons, with charming and helpful illustrations, will enable you, regardless of previous languge training, to read, write and speak Italian in the shortest possible time. The Cortina Method has been time-tested and is the quick, easy and natural way to learn a language. It has received the approval of teachers, students, schools, colleges, and business firms all over the world. Guide to Pronunciation and Spelling Explains how to pronounce the sounds, words and phrases of the language through simple phonetic symbols based on English spelling. Rules of spelling are also explained. Twenty Conversational Lessons These lessons include useful vocabularies and everyday conversations. Alongside of each word and sentence is given the correct pronunciation and English translation. Easy-to-understand grammatical footnotes are combined in this Method to make your language study effective and interesting. Complete Reference Grammar Provides a complete and clear explanation of every rule of structure. It is cross-referenced with and adds to the explanation in the conversational lesson footnotes. Bi-Lingual Dictionary Italian-English/English-Italian Dictionary contains all useful words and terms you need to know, so you can locate them easily.
Book Synopsis Ollendorff's New Method of Leaning to Read, Write, and Speak the Italian Language by : Felix Foresti
Download or read book Ollendorff's New Method of Leaning to Read, Write, and Speak the Italian Language written by Felix Foresti and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1856.
Book Synopsis New Method of Learning Italian by : Heinrich Gottfried Ollendorff
Download or read book New Method of Learning Italian written by Heinrich Gottfried Ollendorff and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
